I decided to call this the best wins of the Painter era because some of the best games have unfortunately ended up as losses. Last year’s NCAA Tournament game with Virginia is right at the top of that list of course, but think of “Carsen at Texas” or Robbie Hummel vs. Evan Turner as strong games where Purdue came up short.
We want to look at wins, however, and based on the ballots I was able to gather this is one that made the list even if it was not in my original post.