While Archie Miller and Calbert Cheaney received great ovations on Saturday at Indiana basketball’s Hoosier Hysteria, the biggest may have come for someone who may have the biggest question mark surrounding his future in Bloomington.
Making his debut at the same event last season, that was all the action Jerome Hunter would see in the 2018-19 season, and many thought possibly for his entire career. Now, Hunter brings hope and opportunity to a team and program that is looking to reinvent itself.
It was not long ago that Hunter was a top-60 recruit in the 2018 recruiting class and was expected to be a crucial part of the Indiana season and future, but all of that came into question as he missed the entire season with a leg condition.