The night before the game, he wasn’t nervous. Not at all, he said. Jeremy Gray had done stuff like this before. He worked as a public address announcer in the past, including filling in a few times as the IU men’s basketball public address announcer when Chuck Crabb was sick or had other obligations. Gray had also spent some of his career as a sports broadcaster.
A few days earlier, on Sunday, January 30, Gray had gotten a call from IU vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics Scott Dolson saying that Chuck Crabb, who notably worked as the public address announcer for IU men’s and women’s basketball, was retiring.