I've been to West Lafayette. It's not great. If you haven't had the opportunity, you can get on Google maps and street view it, but there's this shadowy figure in the shape of a small child that follows you, and it gets closer the longer you stay in the city until it finally engulfs the screen and all you can see is the blood red of its eyes.
Mackey Arena, a secluded dwelling where the Purdue Boilermakers shoot hoops, is nice though. It's everything that Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center is not; most notably, it's a venue constructed for the purpose of actual basketball instead of basketball plus every other event conceivable.