Three Thoughts is a new feature GoldandBlack.com will run every Monday morning in-season.
ON RECENT PURDUE'S INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
The season's months away, but the Boilermakers may be taking a step toward being a great team right this minute.
Zach Edey may be on the verge of making Canada's Senior National Team. That's 19-year-old, one-year-of-college experience, former hockey player Zach Edey maybe getting a chance to appear in the Olympics, on a team full of NBA players.
It's hard to even put into fitting perspective the magnitude of that accomplishment should it happen.
At worst, Edey will make Canada's 19-and-under national team and join teammates Jaden Ivey and Caleb Furst in Latvia.
That's a quarter of Purdue's roster playing high-level, meaningful basketball this summer.
For these three young players, that can be profoundly impactful for them.
But what they've already done has already spoken volumes about them.