On March 15, Trayce Jackson-Davis nearly made his decision final. He wasn’t planning to return to Indiana.
That day, not long after he learned of the ousters of head coach Archie Miller and assistant Tom Ostrom — the two men most instrumental in steering him to Bloomington two and a half years ago — Jackson-Davis wasn’t even thinking about a third season in the Big Ten. He was thinking about his exit strategy.
“I was almost dead-set on entering the draft and hiring an agent,” Jackson-Davis said Friday.
Eventually, the burning, raw emotion that blurred his thinking gave way to patience, and when IU announced Sunday that it had hired former NBA head coach Mike Woodson, Jackson-Davis was curious to learn what the new coach was all about.