Last Season’s Hoosiers Liked to Party

Led by senior forward D.J. White and freshman phenom Eric Gordon, the Hoosiers got off to a blazing 17-1 start last season. But then-coach Kelvin Sampson’s recruiting scandal weighed on the team, which lost its last three games, including its first round match-up in the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments.↵↵But perhaps it wasn’t just the Sampson distraction that caused the team to fall apart -- all those drugs Gordon claims players were doing probably had something to do with it:↵

↵↵⇥“It was a well-known fact that it was displayed, guys using drugs and things like that,” Gordon said following the Los Angeles Clippers’ loss to the Chicago Bulls on Wednesday night. “I really wasn’t really worried about it, I was just worried about playing.”↵⇥↵⇥Sampson tried to stop the drug use, Gordon said, but Sampson “was just so focused on basketball and winning and everything.”↵⇥

↵↵Gordon doesn’t elaborate on what drugs were being used, or what exactly “things like that” means (strippers? I’m gonna guess it means strippers), but he did make it clear that it wasn’t him. Or D.J. White. Or two other dudes who are still on the Indiana team (assuming that’s Kyle Taber and Brett Finkelmeier). And Adam Ahlfeld, who rode the bench on the team, says it wasn’t him. So who, exactly, was doing the partying? And why didn’t any of it end up on Facebook? It’s pretty much common knowledge that if you’re an amateur athlete doing something illegal, then you must post photographic evidence of it on your social networking page.↵