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Northwestern Wildcats vs. Purdue Boilermakers

The Northwestern Wildcats and the Purdue Boilermakers will both be trying to pick up a win on Wednesday when they battle at Mackey Arena.

Oddsmakers opened the Boilermakers as -14-point favorites versus the Wildcats, while the game's total opened at 147.

Purdue won its last outing, a 68-60 result against Scarlet Knights on January 28. They failed to cover in that game as a -10-point favorite.

In their last action, Northwestern was a 83-58 winner at home against Buckeyes. They covered the -3.5-point spread as favorites.

Northwestern:
Team record: 15-5 SU,9-9-2 ATS
Northwestern is 2-3-1 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
Northwestern is 4-1-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Purdue
Northwestern is 2-11 SU in its last 13 games when playing Purdue

Purdue:
Team record: 19-2 SU,13-7-1 ATS
Current Streak: won 5 straight games.
Purdue is 1-4-1 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Northwestern
Purdue is 11-2 SU in its last 13 games when playing Northwestern
The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Purdue's last 13 games when playing Northwestern

Next up:
Northwestern at Minnesota Saturday, February 3
Purdue at Wisconsin Sunday, February 4