Hoosiers had 2.13 GPA last semester

• By Doug Wilson | Wednesday, July 16, 2008 at 10:41 am Through an open records law request, we’ve learned that IU’s basketball team had a 2.13 GPA last semester. As we noted in a story on HeraldTimesOnline.com today, that marked a significant drop from the 2.89 last fall that Kelvin Sampson called one of the best GPAs of his coaching career. Former player Armon Bassett told H-T reporter Chris Korman that the turmoil leading up to Sampson’s resignation in late February was the biggest reason for the lower grades. “Everybody talks about our grades going down, and they did,” Bassett said. “We didn’t go to class for two weeks when everything was going on, when we didn’t know what would happen to our coach. Every day we heard a new story, there were reporters waiting everywhere we went. It was a crazy time for us. We lost focus.... [read full story]