ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The best game of Trevion Williams' Purdue career was not enough to lead the Boilermakers over No. 19 Michigan on the road.
Williams set career-highs with 36 points and 20 rebounds, his fourth double-double in the last seven games, but the Boilermakers couldn't complete the upset, falling 83-78 in double overtime Thursday at the Crisler Center in front of an announced crowd of 12,707.
“I just tried to get (Michigan center Jon Teske) in the air, get him jumping a little bit,” Williams said. “Once I got a couple (shots) to fall, I started getting more comfortable, started making more moves. Just my touch was on fire, I guess, tonight.”
Williams played a career-high 44 minutes and went 16 for 28 from the field. He made nearly every big play for the Boilermakers (9-7, 2-3 Big Ten) and by the end of the game was touching the ball on every possession.
The 6-foot-9 sophomore did most of his damage from the post, but with less than 90 seconds left in regulation and Purdue down one, he beat the shot-clock buzzer with a fadeaway 3-pointer, just the third 3 of his college career.
“That was the grace of God, man,” Williams said, laughing.
Williams, who became the first Boiler with 35 points and 20 rebounds in a game since Bob Ford in 1971, had a shot to win the game at the regulation buzzer off a pass from Eric Hunter Jr., but was blocked from behind.
Michigan scored the first four points of the first overtime, but Williams responded with six in a row from the paint to put Purdue back in front before a Zavier Simpson layup knotted the score and necessitated another extra session.
“That's my roommate, so we're in the gym together, I know what he's capable of, for sure,” Hunter Jr. said of Williams. “It was really no surprise to me actually, I just kept plugging, kept getting (the ball) to him.”
Williams was on the court so much because Purdue played all of the second half and the overtimes without center Matt Haarms, who suffered what coach Matt Painter called a hip injury late in the first half. Painter did not know the severity of the injury, but it made Haarms struggle to lift his leg.
The 7-foot-3 Haarms, the Boilers' best shot-blocker, was missed down the stretch, when Simpson repeatedly drove to the basket for big points. The Wolverines point guard finished with 22 points, 18 after halftime, and nine assists.
Michigan scored the first nine points of double overtime, including 3s from Simpson and Franz Wagner, to finally pull away.
Coming off an ugly loss against Illinois in which the Boilermakers, by Painter's own admission, did not play hard enough, Purdue gave a much better effort against the Wolverines (11-4, 2-2).
“We definitely came out with a different mindset (than against Illinois),” guard Isaiah Thompson said. “We just wanted to compete. We felt like we didn't compete against Illinois and tonight at Michigan we were a totally different team. We had a chance to win the game and we just came up a little short.”
The game was Purdue's second to reach double-overtime in the last week, after the Boilermakers beat Minnesota at Mackey Arena last Thursday by an identical 83-78 score.
Thompson, a true freshman, scored 12 points in the first six minutes of the second half to push Purdue in front after the Boilers trailed 32-28 at halftime. Thompson finished with 14 points, all in the second half, and Painter called his play “fabulous.”
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