'Excited for his future.' How Purdue basketball's Zach Edey went from project to NBA Draft

WEST LAFAYETTE — In 2015, Caleb Swanigan joined the Purdue basketball roster.

Assistant coach Brandon Brantley, who works with Boilermaker post players, knew almost immediately he was training a future NBA talent.

Brantley had no such premonition with his next NBA prospect.

"Caleb Swanigan, everyone pretty much assumed he was going to get to the NBA," Brantley said of Swanigan, who was a first-round draft pick in 2017. "We didn’t know when, but we knew it would happen. Nobody thought that about Zach."