Chase Martin first stepped foot inside the halls of Purdue's Mackey Arena long ago — not too long after he took his first steps.
The college freshman now walks those West Lafayette, Indiana, paths as a walk-on for the Purdue men's basketball team.
Being there is a homecoming of sorts for Martin. Before he moved around the country growing up and landed in Columbia, where he was valedictorian of his high school class at Tolton, Martin became familiar with several of the Boilermakers' current coaches.
Martin is the youngest of three children born to Missouri head men's basketball coach Cuonzo Martin and his wife of 25-plus years, Roberta.