HONOLULU — Zach Edey scored 15 of his game-high 25 points in the first half and No. 2 Purdue rallied to beat No. 11 Gonzaga 73-63 in a Maui Invitational quarterfinal Monday.

The Boilermakers (4-0) trailed by nine late in the first half but outscored the Bulldogs 43-28 in the second half to remain unbeaten.

“The start of the second half was key for us, getting some transition baskets, getting some steals,” coach Matt Painter said. “I thought we had some active hands at that time and I think that kind of set the tone for us in the second half. The other difference, I thought, was their inability to make 3s in the second half.”

Edey, a 7-foot-4 senior center, shot 8-for-16 from the field and made 9 of 10 from the free-throw line. He also grabbed 14 rebounds and blocked three shots in 33 minutes.

Lance Jones and Braden Smith added 13 points apiece for Purdue, which shot 54.5% from the field (18 of 33) in the second half. Smith also notched five steals.

Graham Ike led Gonzaga (2-1) with 14 points and seven rebounds. Ryan Nembhard had 11 points, six assists and three steals, and Nolan Hickman added 11 points and three steals.

The Bulldogs were 26-for-69 (37.7%) from the field. Purdue dominated Gonzaga in points in the paint, 44-30.

Gonzaga was only 5 of 8 from the line, while Purdue made 13 of 16.

The Boilermakers jumped out to a 6-0 lead, but the Bulldogs answered with a 14-0 run capped by a Hickman pull-up jumper at the 14:28 mark. Gonzaga led 35-30 at halftime.

Purdue took the lead for good with 14:53 to play on Edey’s put-back dunk that gave the Boilermakers a 43-42 advantage.

Gonzaga shot 6 of 19 beyond the 3-point arc in the first half and went 0-for-13 from long distance the rest of the way.

“If you look at the 3s we took, they were all good shots,” Bulldogs coach Mark Few said. “I don’t know that we took any bad ones during that stretch. Obviously that was a fairly big factor. I thought the bigger factor was that we just turned the ball over too much.”

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Gonzaga committed 14 turnovers.

Purdue improved to 4-0 all time against Gonzaga. The teams last faced off in the semifinals of the Phil Knight Legacy last year. The Boilermakers won that one 84-66.

Purdue returned all five starters from last season’s team that went 29-6 and earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament before losing to No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson. Edey, the reigning AP National Player of the Year, is one of two players in the country averaging at least 20 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks.

Gonzaga reached the Elite Eight a year ago and added a trio of impact transfers in Ike (Wyoming), Nembhard (Creighton) and Steele Ventura (Eastern Washington).

Purdue, which was coming off an 83-71 win over Xavier a week ago, has won 28 consecutive regular-season, nonconference games dating to December 2020, the longest streak in the country.

Purdue: Will meet No. 7 Tennessee, a 73-56 winner over Syracuse, in a semifinal Tuesday.

Gonzaga: Will play Syracuse on Tuesday in a consolation game.