Braden Smith scored 16 points and dished out 14 assists Thursday night and visiting Purdue never trailed in a 68-50 Big Ten Conference win over Rutgers in Piscataway, N.J.Trey Kaufman-Renn added 16 points for the Boilermakers (12-4, 4-1), who shot 50 percent from the field in a slowly-paced game. Kaufman-Renn dunked off a Smith pass with 4:18 left that gave Purdue a 62-46 lead and sealed the outcome. Fletcher Loyer chipped in 13 points for the Boilermakers.Freshman Ace Bailey scored a game-high 17 points for the Scarlet Knights (8-8, 1-4), hitting four 3-pointers and grabbing seven rebounds. But the team’s other prized freshman, Dylan Harper, made only 2 of 9 shots in 28 minutes and finished with just six points.Rutgers trimmed a 14-point second half deficit to 46-41 at the 10:51 mark when Harper fed Tyson Acuff for a long 3-pointer. However, the Boilermakers responded with a 9-0 run that saw Smith dish to Gicarri Harris for a 3-pointer, score on a short jumper and later feed Loyer for a layup that made it 55-41 with 8:28 remaining.Purdue limited the Scarlet Knights to 32.7 percent field-goal accuracy, including 7-of-23 on 3-pointers, and forced 16 turnovers. It also established a 38-20 advantage in paint points.Smith entered the game playing some of the best basketball of his career, averaging 25.3 points and 9.7 assists in the Boilermakers’ previous three games.