“Freshman Focus” is an Inside the Hall series on each of Indiana’s incoming freshmen. Today: Anthony Leal.
Jordan Basye has trained Anthony Leal since Leal was in middle school, and he’s coached the incoming IU freshman as an assistant with the Indiana Elite AAU program since Leal was in junior high.
This is to say Basye knows Leal better than most, and what initially strikes people new to watching Leal on the court and in the weight room long ago became commonplace to Basye.
But just as Leal’s work ethic has persisted for the duration of his time with Basye, so have the accolades awarded to Leal personally and to the teams he’s been a part of with Indiana Elite and during a legendary high school career at Bloomington South.