Texas vs. Purdue box score: Full stats from 2026 March Madness Sweet 16 game
The Sporting News is tracking the box score and full stats for the 2026 Sweet 16 matchup between Texas and Purdue on Thursday night.
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The Texas Longhorns and Purdue Boilermakers meet in the 2026 Sweet 16 on Thursday, March 26. The Longhorns earned a No. 11 seed in the 2026 NCAA Tournament but were among the final at-large teams admitted to the field.
This meant that Texas was forced to play one of the four play-in games. The Longhorns beat NC State by two points, and then used that momentum to pull off upset wins over BYU and Gonzaga to reach the Sweet 16. Purdue won the Big Ten conference championship and earned a No.
2 seed in the field. The Boilermakers rolled past No. 15 Queens in the first round and escaped with a win against Miami in the second round.