Published 5/2/2008
at FOXSports.com News for COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Freshman center Eli Holman threw another potential wrench into Indiana's rebuilding project Thursday, telling coaches he intended to transfer before apparently throwing a tantrum in their office that required a call to the campus police.
The meeting, which coach Tom Crean described as cordial initially, certainly did not end that way.
"His behavior took me, along with the other people in the office, by surprise," Crean said in a statement released by the university.
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