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Inside the Hall | An Indiana basketball blog found this 5/3/2008 on www.chicagotribune.com [flag]

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana's roster keeps getting thinner. On Friday, a day after freshman center Eli Holman decided to transfer, coach Tom Crean announced junior forward DeAndre Thomas has been dismissed and starting guards Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis will not be reinstated. Crean said Bassett failed to comply with university and athletic department guidelines. He did not provide details ... [link]

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Around the Hall: The dismissals
Published 5/3/2008 by Big A at Inside the Hall | An Indiana basketball blog
... Ellis, Thomas, Holman all leaving Indiana program (ESPN.com) Ex-Richmond basketball star leaves Indiana (San Francisco Chronicle) IU drops three players from men’s team (Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette) Thomas, Bassett, Ellis out at IU (Evansville Courier & Press) IU cleans its hoops house (Evansville Courier & Press) IU’s top priority is to restore credibility (Times-Mail) Crean loses three more returning players from Indiana (Associated Press) ...

05.04.08 Fast Breaks
Published 5/5/2008 by rtmsf at Rush the Court
... New Hoosier head man Tom Crean refused to allow Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis back onto the team, while kicking DeAndre Thomas off the squad as well. This all occurred one day after the bizarre transfer of Eli Holman, leaving Indiana with only seven scholarship players for 2008-09. ...

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New Indiana coach Tom Crean will be down to three returning scholarship players and eight players in total for next season once the school officially announces the departures of four more players Friday afternoon.

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Inside the Hall | An Indiana basketball blog found this 5/3/2008 on sports.aol.com

It looks increasingly like Tom Crean's first season at Indiana will be brutal. Right now, they don't even have enough scholarship players to do much more than drills. The team lost D.J. White and Lance Stemler to graduation. Eric Gordon, to the shock ...

05.04.08 Fast Breaks

Vegas Watch found this 5/5/2008 on rushthecourt.wordpress.com

Weekend kibbles n’ bits… Bruce Pearl booted UT guard Ramar Smith and forward Duke Crews off the team, reportedly for failing drug tests . New Hoosier head man Tom Crean refused to allow Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis back onto ...

Bassett, Ellis won't be reinstated at Indiana
Indiana coach Tom Crean says Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis will not be reinstated after being ordered off the team in March. ...

Bassett, Ellis won't be reinstated
Indiana coach Tom Crean will not reinstate Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis, who were ordered off the team in March. Interim coach Dan Dakich dismissed the players for missing an appointment and then failing to show up to run laps as part of their ...

Indiana's Holman to transfer
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, ...

Mass exodus going on at Indiana
Indiana’s new basketball coach Tom Crean (pictured) looks like he will have to start from scratch in his quest to rejuvenate the Hoosiers’ proud program. Crean is down to three scholarship players - and five incoming prospects - after ...

Indiana's Bassett, Ellis not reinstated
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Indiana coach Tom Crean says Armon Bassett and Jamarcus Ellis will not be ...