COLLEGES

Zach Edey waited until nearly the last second to decide whether he should leave for the NBA or return to Purdue for another season.

Not completely sure what he wanted to do, the reigning national player of the year picked up the phone to talk with his mother and agent. Their response: do what’s going to make you the happiest.

“It was a no-brainer that I’d come back to Purdue at that point,” Edey said. “I get to come back to great teammates, a university that loves me, to compete for every championship that’s out there. That’s something you don’t get very often and something I didn’t want to pass up.”

Edey’s decision made it easy for Associated Press Top 25 men’s basketball poll voters who picked the preseason All-America team.

The Boilermakers’ towering center was the lone unanimous pick by a 60-person media panel on the team released Monday. Edey was joined by Marquette guard Tyler Kolek, Kansas center Hunter Dickinson, Duke big man Kyle Filipowski and North Carolina forward Armando Bacot.

Edey had a dominating 2022-23 season to sweep all the major national player of the year awards, including AP. The 7-foot-4, 300-pound center averaged 22.3 points, 12.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game while shooting 60.7 percent from the field.

FOOTBALL: Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers is week to week with an injury to his throwing shoulder, Coach Steve Sarkisian said, with Maalik Murphy likely stepping into the starting role for the No. 7 Longhorns this week against BYU.

Murphy and top recruit Arch Manning will get plenty of snaps in practice to prepare for the game, Sarkisian said.

“If the game was being playing today, Maalik would start,” Sarkisian said. “Arch will be ready to go.”

Murphy finished Texas’ 31-24 victory over Houston after Ewers left the game in the third quarter Saturday. Ewers had his right arm in a sling by the time he left the stadium.

Sarkisian gave no specifics on the injury or a timeline of when Ewers might return.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Georgetown women’s basketball coach Tasha Butts died after a two-year battle with breast cancer, the school’s athletic director said.

The 41-year-old coach was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer in 2021. She stepped away from coaching Georgetown last month. Her diagnosis inspired the Tasha Tough campaign which has brought awareness and raised money to bring quality care to women who can’t afford it through the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.

BASKETBALL

NBA: Orlando’s Cole Anthony, Washington’s Deni Avdija and Minnesota’s Jaden McDaniels led the first wave of fourth-year players to reach agreements on contract extensions ahead of the NBA’s deadline.

McDaniels and the Timberwolves agreed on a five-year, $136 million extension, agent Bill Duffy confirmed. .

Avdija agreed to a four-year, $55 million extension with the Wizards, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press.

Anthony and the Magic agreed to a three-year, $39 million extension, according to another person familiar with the extension.

BASEBALL

MAJORS: Stephen Vogt, a former journeyman catcher now on Seattle’s coaching staff, is scheduled to have his second interview with the Cleveland Guardians to be their manager, a person familiar with the meeting told The Associated Press.

Vogt, 38, spent last season as bullpen and quality control coach with the Mariners. He had an initial meeting with the Guardians last week as the club looks to replace Terry Francona, who stepped down earlier this month after 11 seasons in Cleveland.

Vogt’s second meeting with the Guardians is scheduled for Tuesday, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity.

He is also a candidate for San Francisco’s managerial job.

Vogt has no managerial experience, but he has long been regarded as someone with potential at the position.

SOCCER

AC MILAN: Italian soccer club AC Milan has recorded a profit for the first time in nearly two decades.

Milan reported a profit of 6.1 million euros ($6.51 million) for the 2022-23 financial year at a shareholders meeting. That compared to losses of 66.5 million euros (then $66.7 million) last year, which had been reduced from the previous season.

It is the first time Milan has been in the black since 2006. The turnaround has been driven by club record revenue of 404.5 million euros ($431.4 million) — about 100 million more than last year.

NWSL: Former U.S. women’s national team coach Vlatko Andonovski was hired as coach of the Kansas City Current of the National Women’s Soccer League, taking over a team that reached the championship game a year ago but finished 11th out of 12 teams this season. The Current are the replacement for FC Kansas City, which Andonovski led to two NWSL titles before it folded.

AUTO RACING

INDYCAR: Rahal Letterman Lanigan hired Pietro Fittipaldi, the current reserve driver for the Haas Formula One team, to race its third car in the IndyCar Series next season.

Fittipaldi, the Brazilian-American grandson of 1989 IndyCar champion and two-time Indy 500 winner Emerson Fittipaldi, has nine career starts in IndyCar but none since the 2021 season. He was in Austin, Texas, all weekend as Haas’ reserve driver.

Fittipaldi will drive the No. 30 that had been piloted by Jack Harvey until his late-season release. RLL then used several different drivers in the car as it researched its options.