Purdue falls 72-61 after Maryland rallies late
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Rasheed Sulaimon had 21 points and a career-high 10 rebounds, Robert Carter Jr. scored 19 and No. 4 Maryland rallied to beat 18th-ranked Purdue 72-61 Saturday to extend its home winning streak to 25 games.
Purdue led 51-47 with 5:58 left before Carter hit a 3-pointer to spark a 9-0 run that put the Terrapins ahead for good.
A three-point play by Sulaimon with 1:23 to go made it 61-53, at which point the raucous sellout crowd of 17,950 could finally relax.
Carter went 7 for 10 from the field and made all four of Maryland's 3-pointers.
The Terrapins (21-3, 10-2 Big Ten) won despite a poor shooting performance by guard Melo Trimble, who missed 10 of his 12 shots. He finished with 14 points by going 10 for 11 at the foul line.
A.J. Hammons scored 18 for the Boilermakers (19-5, 7-4). Purdue held the lead for much of the second half but lost its 12th straight against a Top 5 team on the road.
Purdue went 3 for 25 from beyond the arc and lost for the first time in 10 games when Hammons led the team in scoring. Isaac Haas, with 10 points, was the only other Boilermaker to reach double figures.
Trimble's first basket of the game, with 10:53 left, put the Terrapins up 43-40.
Purdue responded with three straight field goals. The first two were from Hammons, who just returned from a 7-minute stay on the bench with three fouls.
Hammons did not score again until after the Terrapins had gone ahead 56-51.
Diamond Stone followed Hammons' basket with a dunk, Sulaimon added a three-point play and two free throws by Trimble made it 63-53 with 1:03 to go.
Maryland is 13-0 at home this season and 31-1 since the start of the 2014-15 season.
Hammons scored 10 points, and the Boilermakers closed the half with a 20-9 run to take a 30-27 lead at the break.
Maryland led 18-10 and twice missed a chance to go up by double digits before Purdue rattled off 10 straight points to move in front.
The Terrapins missed nine successive shots before a dunk by Stone ended the scoring drought at 5 1/2 minutes.
TIP-INS
Purdue: The Boilermakers have trailed by double digits in only three games this season. ... Each team had 37 rebounds. Purdue came in ranked second in the nation with a plus-12.3 rebounding margin. ... Guard Kendall Stephens returned after missing three games following the death of a close friend and former high school teammate. Stephens didn't play.
Maryland: After scoring four points in 16 foul-plagued minutes at Nebraska, Carter hit two 3-pointers in the opening 4 minutes. ... Maryland improved to 2-0 against Purdue. The teams first met in January 2015. ... Maryland's last defeat at home was against Virginia on Dec. 3, 2014. ... Former Terps coach Lefty Driesell was given a standing ovation when introduced during a first-half timeout.
UP NEXT
Purdue: The Boilermakers host Michigan State on Tuesday night.
