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Indiana's Recruits Deciding to Go Elsewhere

New Indiana coach Tom Crean has an even more difficult job this upcoming season. Two Hoosier recruits ... Devin Ebanks and Terrell Holloway ... are deciding not to come to Indiana and are looking elsewhere.

Devin Ebanks, a high-scoring recruit whose signed letter of intent to IU included an escape clause, will pick from one of four schools, Ebanks' summer coach Lawrence McGugins told rivals .com Wednesday. Ebanks will visit Texas, Rutgers, Memphis and West Virginia.

IU's other star recruit, Terrell Holloway, told the Cincinnati Enquirer he will attend Xavier.

This comes on the heels of freshman star Eric Gordon announcing he's going pro, Big Ten Player of the Year D.J. White is graduating and the dimissals of Jamarcus Ellis and Armon Bassett from the team.

Crean has five scholarship players returning and two other recruits in the fold (Ellis and Bassett could be back, too). He also has some recruiting restrictions thrust upon him from the Kelvin Sampson Era, which will make it tough to go get guys.

Indiana's Dan Dakich Dismisses Bassett and Ellis From the Team

I guess when it rains, it pours. After missing a second meeting in a week, Indiana interim head coach Dan Dakich has dismissed junior Jamarcus Ellis and sophomore Armon Bassett (pictured with Dakich) from the team.

HoosierNation.com sources indicate the first of those meetings was either last Wednesday or Thursday, although it's unclear if Ellis and Bassett missed the meeting or were simply late. That prompted Dakich to require them to report to Assembly Hall at 6 a.m. on Friday morning to run, with dismissal from the team the consequence if they didn't show up.

They didn't show up ... so Dakich kept his word.

This is a mess. Dakich still is working under the interim label so this could be crushing to anyone who is interested in the Hoosiers' job. D.J. White and (most likely) Eric Gordon will be gone to the NBA this summer and Kelvin Sampson's incoming recruits were granted releases from their letters of intent. Indiana figures to have just six players on scholarship for next season.