2023-24 CBS Sports Player of the Year: Purdue’s Zach Edey selected as nation’s best for second straight season

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Award season in all major American sports should wait for at least some of the postseason to play out. And that’s why, for years now, we’ve done it this way. Put a lot of emphasis on regular-season performance, but don’t ignore the significance of what happens when the games mean the most. So we wait for all the conference tournaments to wrap-up, and then we wait for the first two weekends of the NCAA Tournament to play out before casting our ballots for All-America teams, in addition to our three major/singular awards. 

This year? None of our three big awards would have been altered had we ended voting two or three weeks ago. But it never hurts to wait. 

It’s been a magnificent season, and now we’re guaranteed to have a historic ending no matter which team winds up winning it all. 

As we prepare for the Final Four stage on Saturday night, here are CBS Sports’ awards for National Player, Coach and Freshman of the Year in men’s college basketball.

Keytron Jordan, CBS Sports

2023-24 CBS Sports Player of the Year

Zach Edey, Purdue

Edey cemented his place as one of college basketball’s all-time great centers by upping his production during his senior season while repeating as CBS Sports Player of the Year. The 7-foot-4 star is the nation’s leading scorer entering the Final Four at 25 points per game and is second in rebounds per game at 12.2. He’s reached double figures in every game this season and has recorded 28 double-doubles.

With Purdue in search of redemption following a first round loss to No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson in the 2023 NCAA Tournament, Edey came up huge in the 2024 Big Dance, scoring a career-high 40 points in the Boilermakers’ 72-66 Elite Eight victory over Tennessee. The performance made Edey the first player since 1990 to finish with 40 points…

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Author : Matt Norlander

Publish date : 2024-04-04 17:44:10

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