Recently crowned No. 1 Purdue Boilermakers (8–1) visited the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (5–4) on Thursday night at Piscataway, New Jersey, and came away with a heart-wrenching 70–68 loss on Ron Harper Jr.’s 40-foot shot with less than a second remaining.
Coming into the game, Rutgers was a huge underdog as they had just lost by 35 points at Illinois six days before, while the Boilermakers were ranked No. 1 for the first time in school history. It was Rutgers’s first defeat of a No. 1 ranked team in school history.
