{"id":432381,"date":"2023-03-31T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T16:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432381"},"modified":"2023-03-31T10:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:57:31","slug":"canadian-edey-wins-ap-mens-basketball-poy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/canadian-edey-wins-ap-mens-basketball-poy\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Edey wins AP men&#8217;s basketball POY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, this can&#8217;t be a reason to forget how great of a season Zach Edey had.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Purdue&#8217;s Zach Edey is a near-unanimous choice as The Associated Press men\u2019s college basketball player of the year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/agMDKnrwgH\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/agMDKnrwgH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N9MGscNDk8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/N9MGscNDk8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AP Top 25 (@AP_Top25) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP_Top25\/status\/1641787947849580544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 31, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The big man from Canada dominated in the regular season and was chosen as The Associated Press men&#8217;s college basketball player of the year. However, from 58 judges, only 1 didn&#8217;t vote for the Canadian as he voted for Trayce Jackson-Davis from Indiana.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The season ended in disappointment, which sucks, but it&#8217;s always nice to win individual accolades,&#8221; Edey said. &#8220;It validates your work a little bit. I&#8217;ve seen my game grow yearly in the last three years I&#8217;ve played here. So AP player of the year is a great feeling; it just stinks the way the season ended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Purdue, 1<sup>st<\/sup> seeded, was shocked by the 16<sup>th<\/sup> seed Fairleigh Dickinson in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round during March Madness as only one more team was eliminated as 1<sup>st<\/sup> seed in the first round \u2013 Virginia back in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>However, this can&#8217;t be a reason to forget how great of a season Zach Edey had. BREAKING: Purdue&#8217;s Zach Edey is a near-unanimous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432382,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16707,14084],"gn_keywords":[18527,18525,18526],"acf":{"announce":"Zach's team Purdue was eliminated from the NCAA Tournament, and he didn't answer any calls after that.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432384,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432381\/revisions\/432384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432381"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432381"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}