Purdue Basketball: Accolades continue to come in for Edey

Purdue basketball big man Zach Edey is running out of room in his trophy case.

The Canadian senior was selected Wednesday as the Sporting News’ National Player-of-the-Year for the second straight season. Edey became the eighth repeat winner of the award, joining the likes of Oscar Robertson, Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton and Michael Jordan.

Edey has now won all seven major National Player-of-the-Year awards that have been handed out dating back to last year. This season, he has paced Purdue basketball, averaging 24.2 points, 11.7 rebounds, 2.2 blocks and 2.0 assists per game.

He is the only player in Big Ten history to record at least 700 points and 350 rebounds in a season, doing so both this year and last year, and needs 26 rebounds to become the fifth player in NCAA history with two seasons of at least 750 points and 400 rebounds.

In addition, Edey needs 42 points to surpass Rick Mount as Purdue basketball’s all-time scoring leader. Should he achieve that, he will become Purdue’s all-time leader in points, rebounds and double-doubles.

Edey and the Boilermakers are the No. 1 seed for the upcoming Big Ten Tournament, starting play Friday at noon in Minneapolis.

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