February 17, 2008
They Won One for Coach! He's Still Dead Coach Walking!
IU puts the distraction of playing for a cheat behind them in the blessed calm of an actual basketball game and waxes Michigan State 80-61. Bob Kravitz in the Indy Star works the players-rise-above-their-coach angle.
More interesting? Speculating what IU will do if they do indeed fire Sampson by the end of this week (when their third investigation quickly wraps up). Here's a fun musing from the St. Paul Pioneer Press:
It actually makes some sense, given he was an Indiana high school hoops star before playing his college ball at Michigan State. Rumors are fun.