The year-over-year development during the college career of Indiana fifth-year senior forward Race Thompson was almost anachronistic in modern college basketball.
He was a recruit who reclassified and enrolled a year early in order to redshirt, who then became a redshirt freshman who played in just nine games, who then didn’t start once in a 2020 season that ended early due to the start of the pandemic, who became a full-time starter as a redshirt junior only to see the coach who recruited him get fired at the end of the season, who then elected to return to school for a fifth season, when he helped Indiana end its NCAA tournament drought as the team’s third-leading scorer.