Henry and Texas Southern host No. 1 Purdue

Updated Nov. 28, 2023 10:24 a.m. ET

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Texas Southern Tigers (0-6) at Purdue Boilermakers (6-0)

West Lafayette, Indiana; Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. EST

FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK LINE: Boilermakers -30.5; over/under is 136.5

BOTTOM LINE: Texas Southern visits the No. 1 Purdue Boilermakers after PJ Henry scored 27 points in Texas Southern's 77-71 loss to the Drake Bulldogs.

The Boilermakers have gone 3-0 at home. Purdue is third in the Big Ten in rebounding averaging 38.0 rebounds. Zach Edey paces the Boilermakers with 11.5 boards.

The Tigers are 0-6 in road games. Texas Southern has a 0-4 record in games decided by at least 10 points.

Purdue averages 81.7 points, 8.2 more per game than the 73.5 Texas Southern allows. Texas Southern's 33.5% shooting percentage from the field this season is 4.1 percentage points lower than Purdue has allowed to its opponents (37.6%).

TOP PERFORMERS: Braden Smith is shooting 50.0% from beyond the arc with 1.5 made 3-pointers per game for the Boilermakers, while averaging 12 points, 5.3 rebounds, 6.2 assists and two steals. Edey is shooting 59.2% and averaging 23.0 points for Purdue.

Jonathan Cisse is averaging 8.7 points for the Tigers. Henry is averaging 13.3 points and 1.5 steals for Texas Southern.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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