Zach Edey

Zach Edey is genuinely one of the most fun players to watch college basketball has produced in years — a 7-foot-4 Canadian kid from Toronto who showed up at Purdue and just broke the sport for a while. In 2023 he swept basically every major college player of the year award you can name: Naismith, Wooden, Oscar Robertson Trophy, AP, NABC, Big Ten, the whole cabinet. That doesn't happen by accident. Watching Purdue go all the way to the national championship game in his final season felt like the culmination of something special, even if the title slipped away. He's already in Memphis now at 22 — I'm genuinely curious to see how that size and skill translates to the NBA level.

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Name (English)

Zach Edey

Name (Japanese)

ザック・イディー

Reading

ざっく・いでぃー

Born

May 14, 2002 (age 24)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Horse

Origin

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Height

224 cm

Occupation

basketball player

High school

Leaside High School

University

Purdue University

Awards & achievements

• 2023 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
• 2023 Pete Newell Big Man Award
• 2023 Naismith College Player of the Year
• 2023 John R. Wooden Award
• 2023 Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year
• 2023 NABC Player of the Year
• 2023 Oscar Robertson Trophy
• 2023 Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/zach_edey/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach%20Edey
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B6%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q106817973

Tags

• Ontario
• basketball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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