Purdue basketball center Zach Edey fired back at a transfer portal claim from NBA Insider Dan Dakich in a Tuesday tweet.

“My people are telling me Zach Edey is in the transfer portal,” Dakich wrote on Tuesday. “The transfer portal and NIL suck.”

Edey responded just minutes later.

“My sources are telling me this is false,” Edey wrote.

A former three-star center out of IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, Edey passed up Baylor and Western Kentucky offers when he enrolled with the Boilermakers in 2020. The native of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, was part of a three-player 2020 recruiting class that featured now-Detroit Pistons guard Jaden Ivey and guard Ethan Morton, one that ranked 38th in the country, according to 247Sports.

The 7-foot-4-inch center immediately impacted Purdue upon the departure of center Trevion Williams before the 2022-23 season. He helped guide the Boilermakers to a 29-6 overall record and a 15-5 record against conference opponents in 2023 despite the loss of Williams, Ivey and guard Sasha Stefanovic following an upset loss to St. Peter's during March Madness in 2022.

Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo provided an answer for why the team failed to slow Zach Edey down in a 77-61 Purdue win in late January.

“He's bigger than any player that I've ever coached against,” Izzo said. “He's more skilled with his hands than any player I've ever coached against. And they do a great job of getting him the ball. So I don't know what he did. They do not call three seconds.”

Zach Edey reflected on the shocking upset by the 15 seed in March Madness in a 2022 article from the Herald Bulletin sports writer George Bremer.

“I think a lot of teams underestimated them,” Edey said. “They kind of doubted their ability because of the (seed) number next to their name. But we're coming into this game like we're playing the two seed because they beat the two seed. So we have to have the mentality that they're a really good team, and we have to respect them.”