‘I do think it needs to change’ - Zach Edey urges the U.S. to change the NIL law

For the third year in a row, the NCAA men's basketball National Player of the Year Zach Edey is ineligible for name, image, and likeness endorsements. Purdue's Zach Edey, elected national player of the year in 2023 and 2024, joined Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe in being rated the greatest in college basketball but unable to gain monetarily from the start of the NIL era in college athletics.

 "I hope they change it in the future," Edey said on Friday as Purdue prepared for the Final Four.

As per The Cheyenne Post, "I have lost out on a lot of money this year. At the end of the day it needs to change, for sure. I understand kind of the legal process, it takes a while. It's not like it's an NCAA rule; it's an American law. Anytime you try to change that, I understand it takes a while. But I do think it needs to change."

Zach Edey personal records

Zach Edey comes from Toronto, Canada while Tshiebwe is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In this current season, Purdue's Zach Edey has scored most of the points. While in 2022 Tshiebwe was named as consensus player of the year and also won the NBA G-League Rookie of the Year while playing for Indianapolis. Edey stated that he may make money by selling his jersey.

This season Zach Edey is been averaging 24.9 points, 2.2 blocks, 2.0 assists, and 12.2 rebounds per game for Purdue Boilermakers. He has led the Purdue Boilermakers to their second back-to-back Big Ten regular season and first Final Four spot since 1980. Edey surpassed Joe Barry Carroll as the program's all-time top rebounder this season. Carroll earned the rebounding record of 1,148 throughout his career from 1976 to 1980.