Antione West continued his strong offseason with 14 points and four steals, Omer Mayer added 11 points and four assists and Purdue beat the University of Calgary 79-48 on Tuesday in British Columbia.<\/p>\n
The Boilermakers, who improved to 3-0 on their trip north, held the Dinos to 33.3% shooting and a 4-for-23 mark from 3-point range. Calgary turned the ball over 17 times and Purdue held a 20-7 edge in points off turnovers.<\/p>\n
“I like our effort in guarding the basketball,” Purdue coach Matt Painter said. “You can see that we can really grow into a good defensive team, but also be able to really hawk the basketball. If Daniel (Jacobsen) can give us that kind of rim protection, too, that combination is really good from a defensive standpoint; I thought he did some really good things.”<\/p>\n
Jacobsen, the 7-foot-4 redshirt sophomore, posted eight points, six rebounds and four blocks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
West went 5 for 10 from the field and 2 for 4 from 3-point range as he continued to act as a primary offensive playmaker for the Boilers, scoring in double figures for the third game in a row.<\/p>\n
“That’s who he is,” Painter said. “If you go read (my) comments when we signed him, that was before senior year of high school (and it was the same). He’s just a talented player, a good two-way player. He’s a ballhawk, he gets after it, he can be disruptive on the defensive end.<\/p>\n
“But offensively, he’s talented. We’ll try to put him in a lot of positions just to put that threat on driving, getting to his pull-up. He’s good with the basketball, very talented player, very intelligent player.”<\/p>\n
Gicarri Harris chipped in 11 points on 3-for-5 shooting. Guard Luke Ertel, the 2026 Indiana Mr. Basketball, collected six points and six rebounds and hit a pair of 3-pointers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Boilermakers shot just 7 for 28 from 3-point range as a team.<\/p>\n
After Painter pointed to a lack of physicality on the glass as an area in need of improvement after their previous game Sunday, Purdue outrebounded Calgary 46-35 and 13-7 on the offensive end. Wing Caden Pierce led the Boilers with nine rebounds.<\/p>\n
No player was on the floor for more than 21 minutes for the Boilermakers. They return to action for their Canadian trip finale at 2 p.m. Wednesday against the University of Fraser Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antione West continued his strong offseason with 14 points and four steals, Omer Mayer added 11 points and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,12001,49],"class_list":["post-147734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-purdue","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}