Zimmerman did not get drafted making him an unrestricted free agent, but then was later signed by NBA Utah Jazz.
After not receiving any scholarship offers, he enrolled at Putnam Science Academy, an all-boys boarding school in northeast Connecticut.
[1] In the fall of 2010, Zimmerman headed to Long Island University as a walk on,[2] where he had to pay his own tuition, room and board.
In December 2011, ten players were dismissed from the school after getting caught breaking into an on-campus store, while two others were declared academically ineligible.
[1] The following summer, Zimmerman received a call from Jerry Burns, the coach at Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, New York.
[1] With his United States college eligibility now over, Zimmerman moved north to Canada for a year at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia.
[1] Zimmerman was considered an outside chance of being selected in the second-round of the 2014 NBA draft, but ultimately went undrafted as many had predicted.