No. 16 Purdue has nothing more to prove as it enters Sunday's Big Ten regular season finale at Northwestern.
The Boilermakers (24-6, 13-4) are Big Ten regular season champions and clinched the No. 1 seed for the conference tournament, which opens later this week at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.
Meanwhile the host Wildcats (21-9, 10-7) would like to improve their status heading into the league tourney.
This Northwestern team, now the winningest in school history, eyes a third win over a ranked team while improving their Big Ten seed and getting some favorable looks from an NCAA tournament committee likely to pick the Wildcats for the postseason field for the very first time.