[1][2][3][4] He and Brian Heaney are the only Canadian University basketball players to play in an NBA game.

[3][6][7] Zoet also played professionally in the Netherlands, England, Argentina, Mexico, and the Philippines.

[1][2][3][4] Zoet unfortunately was unable to compete in these 1980 games (held in Moscow) given that Canada boycotted said Olympics as a result of the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.

[8] This 1980 Canadian men's team was positioned to perform well in these Olympics given that Canada competed for the bronze medal in the Olympic games preceding and following these 1980 Olympics (1976, 1984)[9][10] and this time in Canadian basketball has been described as "arguably the Canadian national team's greatest era"[11] and "Canada's golden age of basketball".

[14] Zoet played on scholarship for three seasons (1973–76) for Kent State University in the NCAA.