Note: IU Athletics is partnering with IU Press to share chapters from some of their recently-published books on IU Sports. The following is a chapter from Kirk Haston's book, Days of Knight, published by IU Press in 2017. The second-half of this chapter will appear tomorrow on IUHoosiers.com. Additional details about this book can be found here.
Looking back at what the recruiting process was like for me in high school, it's amazing how close I came to not going to Indiana University to play basketball. To start with, I was about as close as you can get to never even being recruited by IU.