IUHoosiers.com
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Back down? Not a chance. Jalen Hood-Schifino ain't wired that way.
"I hate for somebody to ever say they got the best of me," Indiana's freshman guard says.
Back in the day, growing up in Pittsburgh, a blue-collar city whose tough tradition is personified by the NFL's Steelers, Hood-Schifino faced older players, including a pair of cousins (DeAndre and Sherron Schifino) who, like his mother (Adrianne), were once Penn Hills High School standouts. DeAndre went on to play college football at Pitt. Sherron plays college basketball (starting at Youngstown State, now at Point Park).