WEST LAFAYETTE — At 7-foot-4, Purdue basketball star Zach Edey is used to looking down on people.

But in this sense, Edey is looking up.

Up at Joe Barry Carroll, Rick Mount, E’Twaun Moore, Dave Schellhase and Troy Lewis.

Lewis could no longer be on that list come Wednesday night when the second-ranked Boilermakers host Northwestern.

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In a career full of milestones and records, Edey’s latest came Sunday afternoon at Rutgers with an alley-oop dunk from Braden Smith. It made Edey just the sixth Purdue basketball player with 2,000 career points.

Edey’s reaction was par for the course after he’s repeatedly been asked the past two seasons about whatever his latest achievement is.

“It’s cool. I feel like I keep saying it’s cool,” Edey said. “I don’t have any words probably to describe it. To get my name up there with a lot of the guys you hear about when I first came here, legends you hear about and now my name right beside them is really cool.”

Edey needs 21 points to match Lewis’ career total of 2,038. He needs 316 to catch Rick Mount at the top for Purdue’s scoring record.

It’s possible, but more likely is Carroll’s career rebounding total of 1,148. Edey is just 61 away.

Matt Painter, who has played with and coached some of the best Boilermakers in program history continues to be asked if he’s in awe of what Edey is doing.

Edey’s contributions are almost expected at this point, but it doesn’t make them any less impressive.

“Anybody that can get 2,000 points in college and get 1,000 rebounds is pretty impressive,” Painter said after Purdue’s 68-60 win at Rutgers Sunday.

Carroll, the No. 1 overall pick in the 1980 NBA draft, is the only Purdue player other than Edey with 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds.

Back in May, when Edey made a three-word social media post “run it back,” he wasn’t coming back to Purdue to set records or add more individual accolades.

But it’s come with the the territory with a two-year run of college basketball domination.

After Purdue pounded Michigan last week, Edey said in the postgame press conference, “it’s not the Purdue Zach Edeys.”

It is indeed the Purdue Boilermakers and Edey’s true self worth will be what that group can accomplish as a unit.

“At the end of the day, we’ve kind of got to keep pushing and focus on winning basketball games,” he said.

Sam King covers sports for the Journal & Courier. Email him at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter and Instagram @samueltking.

Northwestern (15-5, 6-3) at No. 2 Purdue (19-2, 8-2)

Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.

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