EAST LANSING, Mich. _ Miles Bridges did everything he could.
Three-pointers. High-flying dunks. Soaring rebounds. Emphatic blocks.
It still wasn't enough to counter Caleb Swanigan and Purdue's decided height advantage.
Bridges scored a Michigan State freshman-record 33 points, but the 20th-ranked Boilermakers pulled away in the final 4 minutes to an 84-73 victory Tuesday night at Breslin Center.
Swanigan, the one-time MSU commitment who changed his pledge to Purdue, finished with 25 points and 17 rebounds. The Boilermakers also scored 15 second-chance points on 11 offensive rebounds and 18 points off 13 Spartan turnovers.
MSU (12-9, 4-4 Big Ten), which has lost four of its last five, hosts Michigan at 1 p.m. Sunday at Breslin.
In a back-and-forth game, the Spartans went up, 46-44, on a Bridges one-hand jam off a lob from Tum Tum Nairn with 16:47 left in the second half.
From there, however, the Boilermakers dashed off a quick 9-3 run to retake the lead for good as the Spartans' big men Nick Ward and Kenny Goins alternated between the bench and court in foul trouble. Goins eventually fouled out.
Bridges kept MSU within range, including a gravity-defying put-back dunk on a missed Alvin Ellis 3-pointer which he followed by stealing the ball from Swaningan, driving the length of the court and slithering through traffic for a layup that cut an eight-point hole in half.
A Bridges 3-pointer with 4:51 pulled MSU back within 69-62, but the Boilermakers got triples on back-to-back possessions from Dakota Mathias and P.J. Thompson to push their lead to double-digits.
Five other players reached double-digits for Purdue (17-4, 6-2), including 12 from Carsen Edwards, 11 from Isaac Haas and 10 apiece from Thompson, Mathias and Vincent Edwards.
Bridges made 12 of 17 shots for the Spartans, including 5 of 8 3-pointers, while getting seven rebounds and four blocks. He broke the 32-point freshman mark Scott Skiles set in 1983. No other MSU player scored in double figures, with Ward and Eron Harris each scoring nine and Cassius Winston getting eight.
The first half lived up to the pregame hype and hope, with the teams playing to a 39-39 draw. The Spartans made 7 of 12 3-pointers, with Bridges netting 3 of 4.
Purdue continue to attack inside, despite making 6 of 12 from deep. MSU built an eight-point lead after Ward picked up his second foul, then Goins got whistled for his second.
That forced Izzo to rely on 6-foot-5 senior former walk-on Matt Van Dyk to guard Purdue's 7-2 center Haas in the paint for the final 4:31 of the half. The Boilermakers went on a 14-4 run to pull ahead, 39-37, aided by four straight possessions with MSU turnovers (two of them from Van Dyk).
Haas made 1 of 2 free throws after Van Dyk's third foul. Bridges rebounded the miss with 6.1 seconds left, drove down the right sideline and laid the ball in over Haas as time expired as the Spartans hustled to celebrate with him on the jaunt to the locker room.
