Sunday afternoon, Purdue may have changed its season's trajectory in its dominant showing against Big Ten-leading and top-10-ranked Michigan State.

Our analysis and Wrap Video from the 71-42 win over the Spartans.

And we don't mean Purdue this season at its best, but Purdue at its best.

All the things the Boilermaker program's pride in itself derives from, it was all out there today.

The effort was supreme, the competitiveness distinct and the basketball played the right way, as people might say.

This was a defensive clinic and Purdue's always prided itself on defense, but also on intangibles, things like toughness and scrap, and all buzzwords in between.

(And Mackey Arena, which was the epicenter of college basketball on this afternoon and as explosive as ever.)

This was the best of Purdue, historically.