According to three sources close to the program, Indiana basketball players Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis have been kicked off the team by IU's interim head coach Dan Dakich. The sources say that Bassett and Ellis were required to run at 6am the day after the two missed an arranged meeting with   more...
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As I hinted at in yesterday's piece, everyone with a glimpse of sanity in their heads knew that the Hoosiers were the far superior basketball team. Better players. Better athletes. Better coach. Nothing new there. However, throughout the entire first half â€" one in which superstar Eric Gordon was   more...
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Growing up in Chicago, there were only two options when it come to collegiate sports teams. You were either a Fightin' Illini or a member of Notre Dame nation. Period. Occasional Chicagoans would feel sentimental toward Purdue or DePaul because they had relatives that went there, but that was about   more...
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Thanks to the Herald-Times for doing the grunt work on this: through an open records request it looks like we can now confirm IU's atrocious academic standing in the second semester with a figure. That figures? A 2.13 GPA. Whoopsies!Armon Bassett told the H-T players didn't go to class for two   more...
Original Story: http://www.insidethehall.com/2008/07/17/....

Thanks to the Herald-Times for doing the grunt work on this: through an open records request it looks like we can now confirm IU's atrocious academic standing in the second semester with a figure. That figures? A 2.13 GPA. Whoopsies!Armon Bassett told the H-T players didn't go to class for two   more...
Original Story: http://www.insidethehall.com/2008/07/17/....