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Former Indiana guard Jordan Crawford, the younger brother of ex-Kentucky guard Joe Crawford, expects to announce his college choice this weekend.
According to their mother, there's no chance that Jordan will follow in Joe's footsteps and play for UK.
For one thing, Kentucky did not express interest in Jordan, Sylvia Crawford said Wednesday. When asked what the family heard from UK, Sylvia Crawford said, ”Uh, well, we didn't.“
That was fine with the Crawfords, who have maintained good relations with UK's coaches, Sylvia Crawford said.
”We certainly didn't need them about anything,“ she said. ”We've been talking to the coaching staff about Joe. I know we could ask them for advice.“
Joe Crawford was picked in the second round by the Los Angeles Lakers in last week's NBA Draft.
”For the most part, we know they had a point guard coming in who is pretty highly ranked, from what Joe told us,“ Sylvia Crawford said in reference to incoming freshman DeAndre Liggins.
Jordan prefers to establish himself as independent of his older brother, Sylvia Crawford said. So Jordan was not fazed by UK's lack of interest.
”He would have been flattered by it,“ she said. ”But at the same time, he felt (UK) was Joe's. Not that he felt he couldn't live up to it. He just didn't want to pattern himself (after his older brother) for others to compare.“
Jordan cast his own considerable shadow as a freshman last season for Indiana. He averaged 9.7 points, seventh among Big Ten freshmen. He also averaged 25.3 minutes and made 36.6 percent of his three-point shots.
His transfer came in the wake of Indiana replacing Kelvin Sampson as coach with Tom Crean. NCAA penalties also loom as Indiana has self-reported rules violations in its basketball program.
Jordan is considering Xavier, Cincinnati, Texas, Oklahoma and Central Michigan. He's ”leaning more than heavily“ toward one of those schools, his mother said.
She declined to identify which school while saying an announcement should come during the July 4 holiday weekend.
IU gives up 2 scholarships
Indiana will give up two basketball scholarships for the upcoming season in anticipation of penalties related to the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate, assistant athletic director Frank Cuervo confirmed Wednesday.
Indiana already has given up one scholarship for 2008-09 because of the phone-call scandal under former coach Kelvin Sampson. Indiana still is awaiting the NCAA's decision on the allegations against Sampson.
U of L releases partial slate
Louisville will face Notre Dame, South Florida and West Virginia twice in 2008-09 and every other Big East team once as part of the Cardinals' 18-game conference schedule. The team's full-season schedule will be released in September.
EKU coach adds assistants
Eastern Kentucky women's basketball coach Chrissy Roberts added Melissa Kolbe, Kent Miller and Candace Finley to her staff, the school announced Wednesday.
Roberts is in her first year as EKU's coach and was selected to replace Larry Joe Inman, who retired earlier this year after 20 years with the Colonels.
