A new coach, a bat and a pandemic: Inside Scott Dolson s first year
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With a change at the top, Indiana is understandably recalibrating everything within the program.
When it comes to recruiting targets, that means taking a fresh look at who has been offered a scholarship to this point, as well assessing the top available prospects still on the board.
With two new assistant coaches on the the staff in Yasir Rosemond and Dane Fife, IU now has connections it didn’t have, and in large part because of that we’ve seen a wave of class of 2022 offers over the last few weeks.
With clear mutual interest when Archie Miller was still the head coach, 2022 forward Alex Karaban was generally thought to be at or near the top of Indiana’s priority list in the class a couple months ago.
Dane Fife showed up for his first Zoom press conference as an Indiana assistant coach armed with jokes and wisecracks, self-deprecating and otherwise.
The former Indiana guard and 10-year assistant coach at Michigan State under Tom Izzo had crossed paths with enough of the media members on the call over the years to be able to deliver some playful cracks, and he did, calling out one beat reporter for the sunburn he’d developed on vacation in Florida and another for the hair spiking out above his visor, asking if it was real hair. A third, who is bald, joked that his hair was obviously real, and Fife suggested that Indiana needed better high-definition on its Zoom calls because he couldn’t tell how long it had been since the reporter shaved what little hair he had.
Thompson returning to IU after weighing options
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It’ll be seven months before new Indiana men’s basketball coach Mike Woodson has an opportunity to win his first game at the college level.
But a week and a half into his tenure, Woodson is already winning the offseason.
Woodson scored another victory on Thursday morning with word that veteran forward Race Thompson will return to IU next season. Thompson, a team captain as a redshirt junior last year, built upon a solid sophomore season by averaging 9.1 points and 6.2 rebounds per game for the Hoosiers. With an offensive rating of 108.8, per KenPom.com, Thompson was IU’s most efficient scorer and one of merely three players in the program with an offensive rating above the national average adjusted efficiency rating of 102.0. Perhaps most importantly, Thompson gives the Hoosiers a hardened player who is willing to bump and battle underneath and play the grinding style for whic
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