WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) — On Saturday, Purdue held their annual fan day that includes the boys’s and ladies’s basketball groups.
Purdue followers might play video games, meet gamers and watch follow.
Some followers waited over three hours to satisfy Zach Edey. The road to get his autograph wrapped across the Mackey Area concourse and began forming at 9 a.m. when the doorways opened.
Autographs didn’t begin till 11:45.
“It’s cool,” Edey stated. “I couldn’t even see my full line. It was out the door. The best for me was all the youngsters that had been there. Type of with the ability to really feel like I’m a task mannequin. I noticed children carrying my jersey. It’s very humbling to me and makes me simply wish to be a greater individual.”
Whereas Edey had his personal non-public room, the remainder of the boys’s and ladies’s gamers had been sitting at tables round Mackey, signing autographs and assembly followers.
Each the boys’s and ladies’s groups additionally performed in entrance of followers in the present day. The ladies’s crew practiced and ran drills whereas the boys’s crew held an intra-squad scrimmage.
“It simply makes me so blissful,” fifth yr guard Abbey Ellis stated. “This jogs my memory that the season is coming and we’ve labored so arduous all this time by ourselves within the gymnasium. So it was nice to point out everybody what we’ve been engaged on and the way this new crew goes.”
Sophomore guard Fletcher Loyer additionally stated he was excited to scrimmage in entrance of followers. He was blissful to see children carrying his jersey within the crowd.
“It’s superior,” Loyer stated. “You grew up going to school and NBA video games carrying jerseys. My little cousin has my jersey on. It’s actually superior. After which he’s arising and asking me questions and individuals are asking for footage. It’s fairly surreal. And it reveals how superior our followers are right here at Mackey, right here at Purdue and actually everywhere in the nation.”
Males’s scrimmage outcomes:
Zach Edey and Braden Smith recorded double-doubles and Ethan Morton posted an impressive ground sport for the No. 3-ranked Boilermakers of their annual Fan Day scrimmage at Mackey Area.
The scrimmage was the primary alternative for the general public to see the Boilermakers earlier than subsequent Saturday’s charity exhibition sport at No. 14-ranked Arkansas.
Zach Edey completed with 16 factors, 13 rebounds and three assists towards no turnovers whereas going 8-of-13 from the sector. After beginning the scrimmage 1-of-6 from the sector within the first session, he made all seven of his photographs within the last two stanzas.
In the meantime, Braden Smith tallied 11 factors (4-of-6 taking pictures) with 11 assists, 5 rebounds and two steals within the 30-minute session. In two scrimmages this month, Smith tallied 31 factors, 18 assists, 9 rebounds and 6 steals towards simply 5 turnovers.
Ethan Morton performed an impressive ground sport with eight factors, (3-of-5 taking pictures), eight assists, 4 rebounds, 4 steals and one blocked shot.
Fletcher Loyer led the Boilermakers with 17 factors (5-of-7 from the sector) and three assists. Within the two scrimmages, Loyer averaged 15.5 factors on 12-of-19 taking pictures (.632) from the sector.
Trey Kaufman-Renn added 14 factors and eight rebounds and Lance Jones contributed 12 factors, making 4 3-pointers.
Purdue will face No. 14-ranked Arkansas subsequent Saturday in Fayetteville, Arkansas, starting at 4 p.m. ET. The sport shall be streamed on SEC+.
