Indiana gives up two schollies

[SirSaxa]

sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3471480

Trying to head off worse NCAA sanctions, Tom Crean and IU gave up two more schollies for a year

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana University will give up two basketball scholarships for the upcoming season in anticipation of penalties related to the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate, assistant athletic director Frank Cuervo confirmed Wednesday.

The APR is a percentage score over a rolling four-year period that measures retention and eligibility of players. Teams can lose scholarships if their score is subpar and they have a player who left school early and would not have been academically eligible had he remained.

University officials do not comment on players' academic standing due to privacy laws, but coach Tom Crean has said he "inherited a tremendous amount of dysfunction."

Crean has eight scholarship players available for the upcoming season. He also has a transfer who has to sit out a year and will be eligible in 2009-10 [Guess we know who that is!]. That counts as nine scholarships for 2008-09 and leaves the Hoosiers with one available.

It is going to take Crean a while to get that program back.
Is this worse than the UK situation Pitino took over?

[TBird41]

So they gave up two scholarships next year that they weren't even using? Man, that's a rough penalty

[HeartAttackHoya]

Rivers is going to be focal point of that offense. They are going to be setting double screens etc to free him up so he can unleash his offensive arsenal on the big 10. Tough times in hoosier land to say the least.

[Elvado]

The hidden genius in this move is that Crean can cruise the local playgrounds looking for "walk ons".