March Madness 2022: Purdue holds slim lead at halftime over Saint Peter’s in Sweet 16

Purdue has a slim lead at halftime of their NCAA Males’s Basketball Event Candy 16 matchup in opposition to Saint Peters 33-29.

The Boilermakers went into the locker room capturing 50% from the ground and 44% from three-point vary. It contributed to their slim lead going into the halftime break.

Purdue guard Sasha Stefanovic was 4-of-5 from the ground and was the lone Boilermakers participant in double digits in scoring with 11 factors. Three of his made pictures have been from three-point vary.

Whereas Purdue led at halftime, outrebounded Saint Peter’s 19-12 and have been capturing the ball higher, that they had 9 turnovers which is preserving the Peacocks within the sport.

Peacocks ahead Clarence Rupert had 11 factors to complete the half. He was the one St. Peter’s participant in double figures in scoring.

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Saint Peter’s Doug Edert, proper, tries to get previous Purdue’s Mason Gillis throughout the first half of a school basketball sport within the Candy 16 spherical of the NCAA match, Friday, March 25, 2022, in Philadelphia.
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Saint Peter’s had a candy alley-oop towards the tip of the half and Jaylen Murray completed the half with a buzzer-beating lay-up to presumably give the workforce some momentum going into the break.

Saint Peter’s Matthew Lee, left, goes up for a shot in opposition to Purdue’s Jaden Ivey throughout the first half of a school basketball sport within the Candy 16 spherical of the NCAA match, Friday, March 25, 2022, in Philadelphia.
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Purdue is trying to get again to the Elite Eight for the primary time since 2019. Saint Peter’s is the furthest the varsity has ever been within the males’s tourney. An Elite Eight look can be historic for a No. 15 seed.