Coen Carr, Carson Cooper put 7-foot-4 center on a poster with back-to-back dunks

Michigan State is in West Lafayette on Thursday night, taking on No. 8 Purdue at the most daunting venue for Spartan basketball fans: Mackey Arena.

The fight through one half was back-and-forth, but there were a couple of massive dunks by Coen Carr and Carson Cooper that left the crowd speechless.

They were both over the same 7-foot-4 center, too.

You're just going to have to see these dunks for yourself to really understand how ferocious and downright disrespectful they were.

Coen Carr, Carson Cooper silence a rowdy Mackey Arena

The first play was with the shot clock winding down on Jeremy Fears, so he followed a screen, sprinted down the lane, and found a slashing Carr for a massive dunk over 7-foot-4 center Daniel Jacobsen. The crowd was actually stunned.

That dunk was cool and everything, but what about back-to-back over the same exact center? Carr put Jacobsen on a poster and then Cooper followed less than a minute later.

Cooper's dunk on the next possession was potentially even meaner than Carr's. He backed down the 7-foot-4 center with the time winding down on the shot clock, hit a quick spin move that would make Nick Ward proud, and threw down a reverse dunk over Jacobsen while being fouled.

Both dunks kind of silenced the shocked crowd, but unfortunately it wasn't for long. Right after Cooper's and-one (which he converted, by the way), Purdue raced down the floor and hit a 3-pointer to rip momentum right back.

Michigan State battled back to pull within three at the half thanks to Fletcher Loyer fouling Jordan Scott on a corner three with 35 seconds left. He'd make two of those to cut Purdue's lead to three and that's where it stood as the buzzer sounded.

Tom Izzo is getting more energy in one half out of this team than the past several Spartan squads who visited Mackey Arena in the past decade. They played well through 20 minutes.

We'll see if they can finally end that Mackey curse that's been looming over Izzo's head since 2014. He wants this more than anything.

Apparently so do Cooper and Carr.