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More ($): Wednesday night at the Peach Jam

NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. — Purdue's search for a frontline player to likely complete a strong 2020 class is no one-man pursuit.

That much was made clear in June when Boilermaker coaches offered a scholarship to Rivals.com four-star center Ryan Kalkbrenner of Trinity Catholic in St. Louis.

"They'd been talking to me for a while," Kalkbrenner said Wednesday night at the Peach Jam in North Augusta, "but part of it was they like to offer people when they come on campus, but I just haven't been able to come up with a date to get there, so they ended up offering me before I could get to campus.

"They think I'd fit in their program and they've obviously doing a really good job developing great bigs. Every year they have good bigs and they think I could continue that."

With an offer issued to Rivals.com's No. 68-ranked player in the rising senior class, Purdue is seemingly in line to get the 7-footer on its campus later this summer.

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