IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Aaron White had 18 points and nine rebounds and Iowa beat Purdue 58-48 on Wednesday night for its fourth win in five games.
Devyn Marble also had 18 for the Hawkeyes (18-10, 7-8 Big Ten), who put an ugly loss at Nebraska behind them ahead of this weekend's trip to top-ranked Indiana.
Iowa never trailed in avenging an overtime defeat at Purdue late last month. The Boilermakers (13-15, 6-9) got as close as 49-43, but poor shooting doomed them to their sixth loss in eight games.
Iowa played without freshman starter Mike Gesell, who was out with a right foot injury.
Donnie Hale had 13 points to lead Purdue, which dropped a game behind Iowa in the race for seeding for the upcoming Big Ten tournament.
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| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Purdue (13-15) | 16 | 32 | 48 |
| Iowa (18-10) « | 23 | 35 | 58 |
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| Purdue Boilermakers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Byrd, F | 34 | 3-11 | 2-2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| R. Davis, F | 12 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| S. Marcius, F | 7 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| R. Johnson, G | 32 | 4-9 | 2-4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 10 |
| T. Johnson, G | 28 | 0-6 | 0-0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| D. Hale | 25 | 6-11 | 1-1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| A. Hammons | 18 | 5-7 | 2-3 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 12 |
| T. Carroll | 15 | 1-4 | 0-0 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| D. Anthrop | 12 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Johnson | 11 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Lawson | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 19-52 | 7-10 | 37 | 14 | 24 | 48 | |
| 36.5% | 70% | ||||||
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| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. White, F | 36 | 3-8 | 11-14 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 18 |
| M. Basabe, F | 23 | 1-8 | 2-2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| A. Woodbury, C | 17 | 0-3 | 0-3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| R. Marble, G | 29 | 6-13 | 4-4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 18 |
| J. Oglesby, G | 21 | 1-5 | 2-3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| E. May | 21 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| G. Olaseni | 19 | 1-1 | 2-2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Z. McCabe | 16 | 1-5 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| A. Clemmons | 15 | 2-3 | 0-0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| P. Ingram | 3 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 16-51 | 21-29 | 39 | 8 | 15 | 58 | |
| 31.4% | 72.4% | ||||||
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