7-foot-4 Zach Edey is favoured to win his second straight NCAA player of the year award after leading Purdue to another No. 1 seed in the tournament.
The 64-team NCAA men's basketball tournament begins Thursday, and several Canadians look poised to play big roles in the bracket — none bigger than Zach Edey, the 7-foot-4 giant who stars for Purdue, one of the top title contenders.in his native Toronto. Now he's widely considered the best college player in the United States after winning the NCAA player of the year award last season and giving himself a great chance to repeat. Edey leads the nation in points this season with 24.
As a result, the Boilermakers earned another No. 1 seed and seem better equipped to make a deep run this time in the not-especially-tough-looking Midwest region of the bracket. Plus, Edey is now projected as a first-round NBA draft choice after concerns last year that he wouldn't get picked at all because his old-school skills and relative lack of mobility might not translate to the modern pro game.
* Senior guard Jaden Campbell averages 11 points a game and is the top three-point marksman for Samford, a 13 seed with a puncher's chance of knocking out banged-up 4 seed Kansas in the first round in the Midwest.Houston's Emanuel Sharp and Auburn's Aden Holloway are touted as Canadian by some media outlets, but the connections seem shaky to me.
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