The Purdue Boilermakers and the Ohio State Buckeyes meet in college basketball action from Value City Arena on Tuesday night.

The Purdue Boilermakers will look to build on an 80-72 win over Penn State last time out to improve to 10-5 on the year. Trevion Williams leads the Boilermakers in scoring and rebounding with 15.3 PPG and 9.7 RPG while Sasha Stefanovic has 10.8 PPG and Eric Hunter Jr. has 10.7 PPG with a team-high 3.6 APG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Purdue heading into Tuesday’s matchup against Ohio State. As a team, Purdue is averaging 71.7 PPG on 45.3% shooting from the field, 35.7% from 3-point range and 69.8% from the foul line while giving up 66.8 PPG on 41.6% shooting from the field and 30.7% from 3-point range this season.

The Ohio State Buckeyes will look to build on an 87-81 win over Illinois last time out. Duane Washington Jr. leads the Buckeyes in scoring with 15.4 PPG to go along with 2.6 APG while E.J. Liddell is 2nd in scoring and tops in rebounding with 14.3 PPG and 6.8 RPG and Justice Sueing has 10.7 PPG to make up the trio of double-digit scorers for Ohio State coming into this matchup with Purdue. C.J. Walker has 8.7 PPG with a team-high 4.2 APG while Kyle Young has 8.1 PPG with 6.1 RPG as well this season. As a team, Ohio State is averaging 77.6 PPG on 45.1% shooting from the field, 34.1% from 3-point range and 75.5% from the foul line while giving up 67.7 PPG on 41.2% shooting from the field and 33.8% from 3-point range this season.

Purdue is 2-7-2 ATS in their last 11 games against a team with a winning record and 6-13-1 ATS in their last 20 games following a win while the over is 7-2 in their last 9 Tuesday games. Ohio State is 4-1 ATS in their last 5 games overall and 21-7 ATS in their last 28 home games while the over is 4-1 in their last 5 games following a win. The favorite is 3-0-1 ATS in the last 4 meetings between these two teams.

I went back and forth on this game as Purdue has a bunch of shooters that can keep the team in this game. However, Purdue’s been hit and miss against the number for some time now while the one place that Ohio State has been consistent against the number is at home where they’re 7-0 straight up and 5-2 ATS this season. I just think that we’re not getting enough points to take a stab at Purdue on the road, so I’ll lay the points with Ohio State in this spot.