This is Kyle Taber. If you've never heard of him, you shouldn't feel bad: He's been on scholarship for less than a year, and he only averaged 1.3 points a game last season.But if you're an Indiana fan, you should feel bad, because he's the best player returning to the Hoosiers this year. After Jordan Crawford announced yesterday that he will not return, there are now 12 players who were on the team in November and aren't anymore.
The Indianapolis Star has a great chart detailing just how bad the exodus has been for Indiana: The players who have left averaged 81.0 points per game last season, while the two players coming back averaged 1.6. (Those two are Taber and a walk-on named Brett Finkelmeier.
Tom Crean is a good coach, and I have no doubt that he'll eventually have Indiana playing good basketball. But for now, Kelvin Sampson has left him a mess.


















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6-13-2008 @ 1:00PM
mj said...
Taber is a walk-on, too. But he was rewarded with a scholarship.
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