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CBS released its college basketball broadcast schedule for the year. The network could air IU as many as eight times (including the Big Ten Tournament) throughout the year.
Kelvin Sampson and crew opened up a practice for fans to watch today and here are some observations:
A lot of people have been bugging me -- and by a lot of people I mean my roommate Evan over and over again -- about when students will receive their basketball tickets. I called the IU ticket office today and they said they would mail out tickets "about a week before the first game." Personally, I would consider today to be "about a week before the first game," considering the first game is a week from Sunday, but alas, they said tickets have not yet been mailed to students.
Here's your chance to see the Hoosiers for free -- before the season starts. This is the release from IU athletics:
Kelvin Sampson was surrounded by 13,000 of his biggest supporters, but he stood alone at the center of the court at Assembly Hall. For the second year in a row, he had a hard time speaking at Hoosier Hysteria. The crowd wouldn’t give him a chance to talk. \n“Kel-vin Samp-son,” they roared, followed by a “clap, clap, clap-clap-clap.” It was one of several impromptu chants directed at the man many dubbed the savior of IU basketball. \nOn one side of the court, five red national championship banners hung from the ceiling, the most recent – from 1987 – older than almost half of the IU student body. On the other side stood an IU basketball team many believe could bring a sixth banner to Bloomington. \nBut less than 48 hours later, all was wrong in Hoosierville. During a teleconference, Sampson admitted to participating in 10 impermissible, three-way phone calls with recruits and disclosed that his staff had made at least 35 phone calls more than the NCAA’s allowable limit. He had been busted for the same offense while coaching at Oklahoma the year before he arrived at IU.\nIt’s no secret the Hoosiers will win some games this year. Perhaps they will make a run in the NCAA Tournament. But there are many fans who believe any potential win is now cheapened. \nAnd there are many who want Sampson fired.
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IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson might have participated in eight three-way phone calls more than originally disclosed by the IU Athletics Department, said IU spokesman \nLarry MacIntyre. \nThe University announced Sunday that Sampson participated in 10 three-way phone calls with prospective recruits – a violation of NCAA-imposed sanctions Sampson received for impermissible phone calls he and his staff made while Sampson was coach at Oklahoma.\nIndianapolis law firm Ice Miller’s report submitted to the NCAA Committee on Infractions acknowledges eight additional three-way phone calls in which Sampson was a participant, said MacIntyre, citing the report. It is unclear whether those eight phone calls constitute a violation because the University and Ice Miller were unable to determine if a connection was made or if the recipients of the calls were prospective recruits, MacIntyre said.\n“They weren’t able to determine in every single instance what happened,” MacIntyre said. \nJ.D. Campbell, director of media relations for the Athletics Department, declined \nto comment. \nThe phone calls were included in the Ice Miller report because they may constitute NCAA violations or violations of Sampson’s sanctions. The infractions committee will make that determination, MacIntyre said. \nAfter an intern in the office of compliance discovered evidence suggesting possible infractions in July, IU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan commissioned the Collegiate Sports Practice of Ice Miller to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter. \nIn looking through thousands of phone calls made by assistant coaches, Ice Miller focused on more than 100 calls which might be in violation of NCAA bylaws or Sampson’s sanctions. Ten of those phone calls were the three-way phone calls involving Sampson, violating the coach’s sanctions. Thirty-five others were in excess of the limit allowed by \nNCAA bylaws. \nAccording to MacIntyre, there are still dozens more included in the report for the NCAA’s review that might or might not constitute violations and were included in the report. Like the additional eight three-way phone calls, it is unclear whether the calls in question were made to recruits. Many of the calls are less than a minute, which might indicate the call never connected, MacIntyre said.\nIU will lose one scholarship from the men’s basketball team for the 2008-09 season as a self-imposed punishment for the violations.\nIU also imposed sanctions against Sampson and assistant coach Rob Senderoff for their roles in the impermissible phone calls. Sampson will not receive a scheduled $500,000 raise this year. Senderoff is prohibited from traveling off-campus for recruiting and is prohibited from making recruiting phone calls. Senderoff will not receive any salary bonus. He is scheduled to receive $110,000 in base salary this year, according to IU’s Financial \nManagement Services. \nBruce Jaffee, Athletics Committee faculty representative, said the committee discussed the penalties six to eight weeks before the University’s announcement. \n“There’s a lot of hall talk,” Jaffee said. “No one is happy with the situation. … I stand by the decision as based on our review with looking at options and the totality of the circumstances. I support the decisions and the self-imposed penalties by IU.”\nThe NCAA could impose stricter sanctions after reviewing the Ice Miller report. \nJaffee said it is difficult to discuss the University’s self-imposed sanctions before the NCAA ruling. \n“It’s kind of awkward to be talking about the test before you get your grade back,” he said.\nJaffee did not want to discuss what actions the Athletics Committee would take if the NCAA imposed stricter sanctions. \n“We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” he said.\nThere is no timetable for the NCAA’s ruling, NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn told the Indiana Daily \nStudent Tuesday.
The NCAA Committee on Infractions will take into account a variety of factors, including whether there was a “pattern of behavior,” before it issues its final ruling on impermissible phone calls made by IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and his staff. \nStacey Osburn, associate director of public and media relations for the NCAA, said the infractions committee received Indianapolis law firm Ice Miller’s report detailing IU’s violation of NCAA \nsanctions. \nThe athletics department disclosed Sunday that Sampson participated in 10 three-way phone calls with prospective student athletes, a violation of NCAA sanctions imposed on Sampson for his role in 577 excessive recruiting phone calls while he coached at Oklahoma. \nAdditionally, IU Director of Athletics Rick Greenspan announced Sunday that men’s basketball coaches made 35 phone calls more than the limit allowed by the NCAA, the same infraction Sampson and his staff committed at Oklahoma. \nIU is “a few days away” from submitting a report detailing the 35 excessive phone calls, a secondary NCAA violation, said IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre.\nIU imposed sanctions against Sampson and his staff for the violations. IU will lose one basketball scholarship for the 2008-09 season, and Sampson will voluntarily forego a scheduled $500,000 raise this year. Assistant coach Rob Senderoff, who was responsible for most of the impermissible phone calls, is not allowed to recruit off campus and cannot make phone calls for recruiting purposes for one year. Senderoff will not receive a salary bonus this year or next. \nNCAA member institutions are required to self-investigate, self-report and self-sanction if violations occur. The NCAA Committee on Infractions reviews those reports and can add stricter sanctions if it deems necessary. Typically, the NCAA is more forgiving of institutions who self-report than those who are caught by the Indianapolis-based athletics association. \nOsburn said there is no timetable for the infractions committee ruling. \n“The committee will look at the totality of the situation and then decide,” she said. “It’s really a case-by-case basis.”\nOsburn said there is no way to determine if the NCAA would impose a stricter penalty because Sampson and his staff violated previously imposed sanctions instead of NCAA bylaws. She said the committee looks at a variety of factors, including the number of violations, competitive advantage gained from the violations, pattern of behavior and a staff’s willingness to cooperate during investigations.\nOsburn said it is unclear whether Sampson will receive a stricter penalty because he previously had been punished for excessive phone calls.\n“It’s not a cut and dry situation,” she said. \nDuring a teleconference Sunday, Grace Calhoun, IU assistant athletics director for student development and compliance, said the department is confident the sanctions are strict enough.\nThe infractions were uncovered when an intern in the IU athletics compliance office was performing a standard yearly review of phone records. The infractions had previously been overlooked by the compliance staff during the office’s monthly review, MacIntyre said. \n“This does not indicate a glitch,” he said. “This indicates the system is working.”\nIU was planning to wait until the NCAA issued its final ruling before announcing the infractions, but after the news was leaked on IU fan Web site HoosierNation.com, officials decided to announce the new sanctions on Sunday, MacIntyre said.
Tyler Zeller, Indiana’s top-ranked high school basketball player, said the recent announcement of IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson’s recruiting violations will not affect his decision on where to attend college.\nReached by phone Monday night by the Indiana Daily Student, Zeller said IU is still on his top four list of schools, despite new sanctions imposed on Sampson and his staff for impermissible phone calls. \n“You still have to look at the long run,” Zeller said. \nZeller said he was informed of the recruiting violations Sunday morning when he was finishing up his official visit to Notre Dame. Zeller did not take a call from Sampson but was later informed by his father of \nSampson’s recruiting violations.\nHe said the news surprised him.\nZeller said he had not yet talked to Sampson, but planned on calling him later Monday night.\n“From everything I’ve heard, it wasn’t Sampson who did it,” Zeller said, adding it was important to him to hear from Sampson exactly what happened.\nZeller, a five-star basketball recruit from Washington (Ind.) High School, is a 6-foot-11 center. He is ranked No. 22 in the class of 2008 by recruiting Web site Rivals.com and is on a short list of favorites to be named Indiana Mr. Basketball, the award given to the state’s top high school basketball player. Current IU basketball players Eric Gordon and A.J. Ratliff are former Indiana Mr. Basketball award winners.\nZeller has narrowed his list of schools to four – IU, North Carolina, Purdue and Notre Dame, where his brother Luke, another former Indiana Mr. Basketball winner, plays for the Fighting Irish.\nZeller said he will visit Purdue this weekend and will take a couple of weeks after that to make his final decision. \nRecruits can officially sign their national letters of intent on Nov. 14.
Just got off the phone with Tyler Zeller. He said the sanctions won't affect his decision. here is a short write-up:
Tyler Zeller, arguably the state’s top high school basketball prospect, said IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson’s recently announced recruiting violations will not affect his decision on where to attend college. \nReached by phone Monday night, Zeller said IU is still on his top four list of schools, despite new sanctions imposed on Sampson and his staff for impermissible phone calls. \n“You still have to look at the long run,” Zeller said. \nZeller said he was informed of the recruiting violations Sunday morning when he was finishing up his official visit to Notre Dame. Zeller did not take a call from Sampson but was later informed by his father of Sampson’s recruiting violations.\nHe said the news surprised him.\nZeller said he had not yet talked to Sampson, but planned on calling him later Monday night.\n“From everything I’ve heard, it wasn’t Sampson who did it,” Zeller said, adding it was important to him to hear from Sampson exactly what happened.\nZeller, a five-star basketball recruit from Washington (Ind.) High School is ranked No. 22 in the class of 2008 by recruiting Web site Rivals.com. He is on a short list of favorites to be named Indiana Mr. Basketball, the award given to the state’s top high school basketball player. Current IU basketball players Eric Gordon and A.J. Ratliff are former Indiana Mr. Basketball award winners.\nZeller has narrowed his list of schools to four – IU, Notre Dame, North Carolina and Purdue. He will visit Purdue this weekend and said he will take a couple weeks after that to make his final decision.\n- For more coverage and reaction see Tuesday's Indiana Daily Student.
Just got off the phone with Darrell Elston, former UNC basketball player and 2008 IU recruit Derek Elston's father, and he said his son's commitment is firm, even with the new sanctions.
IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson and staff will be punished after an internal investigation revealed the staff participated in 45 impermissible phone conversations with prospective recruits, IU Athletics Director Rick Greenspan said Sunday. \nSampson will not receive a scheduled $500,000 raise – nearly one-third of his salary – and the team will lose one scholarship for the 2008-09 season. Assistant coach Rob Senderoff will not receive a salary bonus this year or next and will be prohibited from making recruiting phone calls and recruiting off campus. \nAbout two months after he was hired at IU, Sampson was sanctioned by the NCAA for 577 excessive phone calls he and his staff made while at Oklahoma. IU hired Sampson in March 2006.\nThe impermissible phone calls made while Sampson was at IU occurred during the one-year sanction period from May 24, 2006, to May 25, 2007. \nSampson participated in three-way phone calls on 10 occasions during the year. Three-way phone calls are allowed by NCAA rules, but the NCAA-imposed sanctions barred Sampson from participating in them. Sampson said that on only one occasion he was aware he participated in a three-way phone call.\nAdditionally, members of the IU men’s basketball staff made 35 phone calls more than the NCAA’s allowable limit for contacting recruits, which is a secondary violation. \nSampson apologized during a Sunday teleconference.\n“There certainly is no intent to think we are above the law,” Sampson said. “The rules that we broke were mistakes – not mistakes we’re hitting our chest thinking we don’t have to worry about this. It was a mistake. We take full responsibility for what happened.”\nSampson said that before the investigation, he believed he and his staff “followed all the rules” set by the NCAA sanctions.\n“We think this is something we can be 100 percent – not 99 percent or 99.5 – but we can be 100 percent compliant with this as we move forward,” he said.\nSampson said that during the three-way phone calls, recruits called assistant coaches and were patched through to Sampson after the recruits could not get a hold of Sampson by calling him directly.\nGreenspan said IU will voluntarily extend the NCAA sanctions for another year, though Sampson will be allowed to recruit off campus – something he was barred from doing last year.\nMost of the impermissible phone calls, both the three-way calls and the excessive calls, were made by Senderoff.\nIU President Michael McRobbie said he was “very disappointed” with the violations.\n“We play by the rules at Indiana University,” McRobbie said in a statement, “and we will not tolerate any sort of carelessness and inattentiveness that might give the public cause to doubt our commitment to the rules.”\nA routine review of telephone records conducted this summer by the IU Athletics Department revealed “evidence that some calls contrary to the sanctions may have been made,” according to a statement released by the department. \nGreenspan then contracted the Collegiate Sports Practice of Indianapolis law firm Ice Miller to investigate the situation. The two-month review revealed the violations.\nPer NCAA bylaws, member institutions are responsible for investigating, self-reporting and self-sanctioning violations that occur. The NCAA’s Committee on Infractions can sanction further if it deems appropriate, though Grace Calhoun, IU’s assistant athletics director for student development and compliance, did not believe that was likely.\n“We certainly have been advised by Ice Miller and others that our sanctions are quite severe for the problems that were identified,” Calhoun said. “So we feel very comfortable that we have imposed severe sanctions.”\nThe department submitted Ice Miller’s report about the impermissible three-way phone calls to the NCAA’s infractions committee, and is preparing another report about the 35 excessive phone calls.\nGreenspan said they considered a variety of punishments, and there is language in Sampson’s contract that allows for his termination if severe NCAA violations occur. After consulting a variety of individuals, including representatives from Ice Miller and McRobbie, they determined the sanctions were fitting, Greenspan said.\n“We determined that these sanctions will be significant and they will be severe and they will be appropriate,” Greenspan said.\nTrustee Philip Eskew said he fully supported Greenspan’s decision to retain Sampson while imposing sanctions, but he added he was “extremely disappointed.”\n“We received some criticism for hiring a coach that had sanctions, and we were of the opinion that this would not be an issue going forward,” Eskew said. “Unfortunately, we were wrong.”
Friday night’s Hoosier Hysteria might be the first official practice for the IU men’s basketball team, but D.J. White knows better.\n“It is for the fans,” said the senior forward. The real practice begins Saturday.\nBut that won’t stop the Hoosiers from having a little fun with the fans. The team will participate in a 3-point shooting contest, a slam-dunk contest and an intra-squad scrimmage as a showcase for fans. \nDon’t just expect White to shine in the dunk contest on Friday.\n“I might be in the 3-point contest,” the 6-foot-9 post-player said with a smile. “Don’t be surprised if I win, though.”\nThe festivities will be the first time IU fans can see one of the most-hyped \nHoosier teams in recent history. The addition of freshman guard Eric Gordon and White’s return have many college basketball magazines picking the Hoosiers as a preseason Top 10 team. \nMore than 14,000 fans showed up for last year’s event, and the team is expecting even more for this year’s. But the large crowd won’t scare most members of the team, junior college transfer Jamarcus Ellis included.\n“I’m not nervous,” said the junior guard. “If anything, I’m ready for tomorrow because I just want to see how loud this place gets, because everybody talks about it. I’m just waiting on it. I just want everybody to give it to me soon as I step on the court.”\nEllis is ready to show fans what the team can do.\n“I’m just looking forward to seeing the different atmosphere with my teammates,” he said. “We just want to be together to show everybody that we’re the team – we’re the team to beat this year.”\nIU coach Kelvin Sampson said he hopes his team can make it through the night without injury, so the team can conduct a standard practice on Saturday.\nSampson will host a handful of the top recruits from the 2008 and 2009 classes, according to recruiting Web site Rivals.com. \nSix 2009 players ranked in Rivals Top 100 will attend the festivities, including No. 4 overall Lance Stephenson from New York City and Lawrence North junior Stephan Van Treese, ranked 53rd nationally. New Jersey native Dexter Strickland, the No. 1 point guard in the class of 2009 according to recruiting Web site Scout.com, will also make the trip to Bloomington.\nDoors open for the event at 5:30 p.m. Friday at Assembly Hall. Members of the men’s and women’s basketball teams will sign autographs from 6 to 7 p.m. The men’s team will take the floor following an IU-Michigan State volleyball match and women’s basketball festivities. \nAdmission to Hoosier Hysteria is $5 or the donation of two canned goods, which will go to the Hoosier Hills Food Bank.
Six years ago, IU men’s basketball coach Kelvin Sampson dealt with something far more difficult than any Final Four loss.\nHis mother, Eva, had colon cancer.\n“It’s almost life-altering in some ways to go through that, especially with your mother,” Sampson said.\nSampson’s mother beat cancer, but many do not. That gave the second-year basketball coach a new perspective on the game, life and what he can do to help.\nThis Friday, Sampson will host the inaugural “Opening Day with Coach Sampson” event at Assembly Hall, a breakfast fundraiser associated with the American Cancer Society Coaches vs. Cancer charity.\nAll proceeds from the $100-per-plate breakfast will go to the American Cancer Society of Monroe County.\n“Whatever we can do to raise money to help stamp out this horrible disease – cancer’s one of those diseases that directly or indirectly affects us all,” Sampson said.\nBrenda Davis, a five-year breast cancer survivor, is grateful Sampson hosts the event. She will speak at the breakfast. \n“There’s been Coaches vs. Cancer events throughout the United States, and I’ve just been waiting for IU to get involved in it,” Davis said.\nShe said she plans to talk about what the public can do to influence legislators as they make decisions about cancer issues – specifically funding for research.\n“I just turned 50 last week, and I didn’t think I would ever make it to 50,” Davis said, adding she would not have survived had it not been for recent medical advancements.\nThe event itself will last a couple hours and will jump start an exciting day for the IU basketball program. Assembly Hall will hold Hoosier Hysteria this Friday night. It is the team’s first official practice.\nThe Opening Day breakfast will be served at 6:30 a.m., followed by a short program at 7:30 where Sampson, Davis, former IU players and others will speak. \n“I realize 6:30 in the morning is pretty early – at least it is to me,” Sampson said with a small chuckle. “But that seems like the obvious way to go.”\nThere will also be a silent auction where guests can win a chance for a child to be ballboy or ballgirl, and one person will win the chance to be “coach for a day.” \nAs coach for a day, the winner will attend the pre-game meal, be present for the pre-game shootaround and sit near the team during the game. \n“I’d say if we’re behind at halftime, they get to coach the team the second half,” Sampson joked. “I’d be glad to slide over and let them have it.”\nSampson said he realizes there likely won’t be many students at the breakfast because of the price of the event, but he still encourages them to help out with the cause. \n“They can do a lot of things and be creative in what their fraternities and sororities can do to raise money,” Sampson said. “If they have ideas, I’d like to hear about them to see if we can get involved, too.”\nIt is too late to register for the breakfast, but the American Cancer Society encourages all those interested in helping to call the local office at 336-8423.
INDIANAPOLIS – No star running back? No future Hall-of-Fame wide receiver? No Pro Bowl safety? For the Indianapolis Colts, no problem. \nFueled by a 121-yard, two-touchdown performance from backup running back Kenton Keith, the Colts overcame key injury-induced absences and dispelled the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with a 33-14 win Sunday afternoon. \n“I’ve been proud of our team on many, many occasions, but this was one of the best,” Colts coach Tony Dungy said.\nThe Colts were without running back Joseph Addai, wide receiver Marvin Harrison, linebacker Rob Morris and safety Bob Sanders, all injured during the team’s 38-20 win against the Denver Broncos on Sept. 30.\n“We talked last night about really just focusing on who was going to play, not who might not play or who couldn’t,” Dungy said. “Our backup guys stepped up.”\nIn his first-ever NFL start, Keith, a former Canadian Football League player, scored his first-ever NFL touchdown.\n“It’s a lot different from practice,” Keith said of starting. “Everybody’s going full speed. Everybody’s actually trying to blow my head off. ... I didn’t think it was going to turn out the way it did today. I figured I was going to play good, because I wasn’t nervous or anything, but I didn’t expect a hundred and something yards and two touchdowns.” \nAfter the defense limited the Buccaneers to a three-and-out opening drive, a Craphonso Thorpe punt return put Indianapolis in good field position for its first drive. Colts quarterback Peyton Manning connected on three of four pass attempts on the drive, including a 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Dallas Clark.\n“Getting that stop, getting a good offensive drive and scoring first was really huge,” Dungy said.\nThe Colts’ offense found the end zone in its first two drives of the game, while the defense forced three-and-outs in each of Tampa Bay’s first three drives.\n“We set a tone,” Colts linebacker Gary Brackett said. “We go out there, we determine what they’re able to do to us.”\nThe defense, without linebackers Morris and Freddy Keiaho, limited the Buccaneers to just 17 yards total rushing and quarterback Jeff Garcia to 143 yards passing.\n“It doesn’t matter if we have three guys hurt, five guys hurt, eight guys hurt – whoever is replacing those guys has to step up and make big plays and that’s what we did,” Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney said. \nSunday’s victory was the 12th consecutive win in the RCA Dome, a franchise record.\nManning finished the day 29-of-37 for 253 yards with two touchdowns and one interception. The Colts have a bye next week and will travel to Jacksonville on Oct. 22 for a Monday night game.
Chants of “Terry Hoeppner” rained down from the few students remaining in the stands. Several IU football players triumphantly hoisted their crimson helmets to the sky, where they met the October afternoon sun. And for the first time since 1994, the IU football team was 5-1. \nIU’s 40-20 home win Saturday against Minnesota put the Hoosiers just one win away from their ultimate goal – playing a 13th game – a bowl game – for Hoeppner, their late coach. The Hoosiers last played in a bowl game 14 years ago. \nBut IU’s quick start has caused many on the team to re-evaluate their preseason goal.\n“Our goal is, of course, get to a bowl victory, but we’re trying to get to a big bowl,” said junior wide receiver James Hardy, who caught a touchdown pass on the day. \nBut Hardy won’t let the team get ahead of itself. He remembers last year when a big home win put IU within one game of becoming bowl eligible. In the next game, the Minnesota Golden Gophers trounced IU 63-26 in Minneapolis. \nThat’s one reason why Saturday’s win meant that much more. \n“I made sure everyone knew that they annihilated us last year. ‘Don’t take it lightly coming in and just try to annihilate them this year,’” Hardy said. “We weren’t able to do that, but we got a good victory that got us to five wins.”\nHardy helped IU on its quest for payback by hauling in two catches on the first drive – a 51-yard bomb and a fade route that put the Hoosiers up 7-0. \nMinnesota responded with a successful drive, spurred by a crucial third-and-long pass play from Gophers quarterback Adam Weber to Tray Herndon. After a deep pass of their own from Weber to wide receiver Eric Decker, Weber scampered into the end zone two plays later to tie the score. \nThe big play aided the Hoosiers again when sophomore running back Bryan Payton sprinted up the middle for a 48-yard touchdown run. \nBut Payton had some help from his offensive line. \nAnd the video scoreboard. \nAfter sprinting past the line of scrimmage untouched, Payton had to beat a few defenders in the Minnesota secondary.\n“I looked up at the big screen and saw somebody coming, gave him the dead leg and got in the end zone,” Payton said. \nHe finished the day with 13 carries for 90 yards and three touchdowns. \nAfter Payton’s first score, the Gophers knotted the game up again with a 10-play, 60-yard touchdown drive, capped off by Gophers running back Duane Bennett’s 1-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.\nBut after that, the IU defense held Minnesota’s offensive attack in check. \nThe Gophers were limited to just 11 yards rushing in the first half, and the Hoosiers sacked Weber twice, including once for a 17-yard loss by sophomore defensive end Greg Middleton, who still leads the Big Ten in sacks with 8.5.\nMeanwhile, the IU offense continued to put points on the board, either off the leg of junior kicker Austin Starr or with Payton’s runs. Starr booted four field goals on the day, including a 47-yarder. \nIU scored on seven of its first eight drives. The only time IU didn’t score was when sophomore quarterback Kellen Lewis threw an interception in the third quarter. Lewis finished the game 24-of-36 for 235 yards with one touchdown and the interception. He also rushed 10 times for 75 yards.\nThe Hoosiers didn’t punt the ball until there were less than 13 minutes left on the clock in the fourth quarter. \n“Going into the fourth quarter, I didn’t even think I was going to have to go out there and punt,” said senior punter Michael Hines. “Kellen Lewis would come over and he was talking to Starr, saying that he was sorry for putting so much pressure on him with all those field goals, and I was just thanking him for keeping me off the field. I was like ‘Hey, you’re making my job pretty easy today.’”\nThe Hoosiers travel to East Lansing, Mich., for a prime-time matchup with Michigan State at 7 p.m. Saturday. The Spartans are 4-2 on the year and are coming off an overtime loss to perennial Big Ten bottom feeder, Northwestern. \nThe Hoosiers are currently receiving the fourth-most votes of any unranked team in the AP Top 25 and the eighth-most votes of any unranked team in the coaches’ poll. Payton said the future may be even brighter for the Hoosiers.\n“We have fans who are loyal to us, but I feel there’s always that little doubt in everybody’s head,” Payton said. “There’s always a little doubt, going ‘What if? What if?’ There is no what if. ... We know that, with what we’re capable of, we can beat anybody on the schedule.”
IU will "withdraw the commitment to Mackey, regardless of the outcome of the case," reports ESPN.com's Andy Katz in his blog.
I think this might help add to the discussion. In July, the Hoops Report ran a transcription of an interview with Mackey. Here is one thing that stood out about the interview.