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Purdue faces Lipscomb, looks for 6th straight home win
Lipscomb Bisons (3-6) at Purdue Boilermakers (5-4, 0-1 Big Ten)
West Lafayette, Indiana; Thursday, 11 a.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Purdue hosts Lipscomb trying to extend its five-game home winning streak.
The Boilermakers have gone 5-0 at home. Purdue scores 69.3 points and has outscored opponents by 2.7 points per game.
The Bisons are 0-4 in road games. Lipscomb is 0-2 in games decided by less than 4 points.
Purdue averages 7.0 made 3-pointers per game, 1.3 more made shots than the 5.7 per game Lipscomb gives up. Lipscomb has shot at a 40.3% clip from the field this season, 0.5 percentage points below the 40.8% shooting opponents of Purdue have averaged.
TOP PERFORMERS: Madison Layden is shooting 47.5% from beyond the arc with 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Boilermakers, while averaging 8.8 points. Kiki Smith is shooting 41.4% and averaging 10.8 points.
Molly Heard is shooting 41.3% and averaging 14.1 points for the Bisons. McKayla Miller is averaging 10.3 points.
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