Purdue Boilermakers heart Zach Edey (15) celebrates soon after scoring all through the NCAA MenÕs Basketball Tournament video game against the Fairleigh Dickinson Knights, Friday, March 17, 2023, at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Fairleigh Dickinson Knights won 63-58.
COLUMBUS, Ohio − Zach Edey, the shy, silent kid who Purdue introduced to West Lafayette as a enhancement job, has grown over three basketball seasons with the Boilermakers.
Now, the 7-foot-4 junior middle has to choose if that chapter of his lifetime is above.
Friday night, after getting on the completely wrong finish of a stunning NCAA match loss to 16th-seed FDU, Edey leaned forward in a folding chair in Purdue’s locker space and mulled his subsequent go.
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“I want to occur back and I want to go to war with them, but at the finish of the working day I have to make the finest conclusion for me,” mentioned Edey, the Huge 10 Participant of the Yr and a consensus All-American. “I have no strategy how long my occupation is going to previous. I have no plan what’s likely to transpire in my foreseeable future.”
As Edey’s stock rose through a time wherever Purdue entered the NCAA tournament as a No. 1 seed following successful the Major Ten normal year and match championships, he by no means considered about further than this calendar year.
Edey averaged 22.3 points and 12.9 rebounds for every sport as a junior.
“If there was no funds involved, I would arrive back to Purdue in a heartbeat,” Edey claimed. “It’d be a no brainer. This is my favored locker space I have ever been in. At any time. Any activity I have been in. Baseball. Hockey. Basketball. Any crew. High college. AAU. Club staff.
“It is my preferred locker room I’ve at any time been in.”
That is why this is so tricky.
On one stop, Edey can make a large amount of dollars if he opts to play skilled basketball. He is aware basketball is not a lifelong vocation and you have to strike while the iron is hot.
On the other aspect, his finest mates are at Purdue and everyone, aside from David Jenkins Jr. and Matt Frost, can return next season.
“Which is been a little something I have been hoping to assume as little about following calendar year up till this moment,” Edey reported. “I was just striving to target on our video game. I was trying to aim on the season we’re getting. I really tried using to appreciate the times that we were owning. That is a little something I have received to choose into account now.
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“I have to do what is finest for me and my family at this point. I have no notion what that is heading to be.”
Sam King covers athletics for the Journal & Courier. E-mail him at sking@jconline.com and follow him on Twitter and Instagram @samueltking.
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