After winning the Naismith College Player of the Year for two straight seasons at Purdue, Zach Edey was drafted ninth ... I’ve been playing off the ball, adapting to playing around others ...

Purdue has a better shot against Houston than some are giving them credit for, but it will take their A game to pull off the ...

Smith is attempting to be Purdue's third straight Naismith Trophy winner after former Boilermaker center Zach Edey won it in each of the past two seasons. Purdue's Glenn Robinson won in 1994.

Edey has said several times this season that he can adjust to coming off the bench because that's how his college career started at Purdue. The early signs in the Intuit Dome showed he was right.