Purdue's Zach Edey will have the opportunity to finish his collegiate career with a national championship on Monday, but first, he took home some more hardware on Sunday.
Edey won the 2024 Naismith Men's College Player of the Year award and defeated fellow finalists in North Carolina's R.J. Davis, Tennessee's Dalton Knecht and Houston's Jamal Shead. The big man is the first to win the award two years in a row since Virginia's Ralph Sampson did so in 1983.
That was Sampson's third straight Naismith.
Edey already won the Associated Press Player of the Year for the second straight season, which was also the first time someone accomplished the task since Sampson's impressive run with the Cavaliers.