Carsen Edwards, Vincent Edwards and Isaac Haas discuss a wild second half and their 16th straight victory. Nathan Baird/Journal & Courier
Former Middletown High School standout Vincent Edwards is having an impressive season for college basketball's hottest team, the No. 3 Purdue Boilermakers, which have won a school-record 16 consecutive games. And he got more of the praise he deserves after scoring a career-high 30 on 9-of-11 from the field with 5 rebounds and 5 assists in his team's 92-88 win Thursday against No. 25 Michigan.
Some reactions via Twitter:
From Indystar.com's Gregg Doyel on Edwards' effort:
Vincent Edwards it has a player worthy of All-America honors. Edwards, who came into Thursday averaging 14.9 points, 7.8 rebounds and 2.8 assists and shooting 46.2 percent on 3-pointers, was spectacular: 30 points, five rebounds, five assists. He was 9-for-11 from the floor, 3-for-3 on 3-pointers, and 9-for-10 on free throws. He also put the clamps on Michigan’s power forwards, going 39 minutes as the principal defender on Michigan’s Isaiah Livers and Duncan Robinson, holding them to eight points, four rebounds and no assists in 40 minutes.
Edwards scored 20 points in the second half, and took just five shots from the floor to do it. Read that again. Purdue needed that efficiency in a second half where Michigan wasn’t missing much (66.7 percent from the floor) and Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman wasn’t missing any (19 of his 26 points in the second half). At one point in the second half, the two teams were a combined 24-for-30 from the floor (80 percent).
“This is what you come to a Big Ten school for,” Vincent Edwards said. “This kind of environment. This kind of stage. It was huge. That second-half atmosphere was what you want to play in.”
A recent mock draft had Edwards going late in the second round of the 2018 NBA Draft.
In May of last year, he announced that he'd return to the Boilermakers for his senior season instead of remaining in the 2017 draft.
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