Purdue's run to the Final Four is a journey marked by redemption.
For the Boilermakers, it means moving on from the demons of 2023 and rewriting the narrative that's been squarely focused on their historic loss to No. 16 seed Fairleigh Dickinson in last year's NCAA tournament.
For Zach Edey, there's more. The All-America center and presumptive two-time consensus National Player of the Year arrived at Purdue in 2020 with little fanfare. He was a three-star recruit with a handful of scholarship offers. He remembers those coaches who overlooked him.
Tennessee's Rick Barnes is among them.