New York native Paul Jorgensen has adapted quickly to life in the Hoosier state. David Woods / IndyStar
INDIANAPOLIS – There is a lot of New York in Paul Jorgensen ... but a whole lotta Hoosier, too.
Butler basketball teammates might tease him about his slang and the way he pronounces water like “watta.” To nearly everyone, he is “Paulie.” Yet what could be more Indiana than the kid outside his house shooting baskets all day long?
“Morning, noon and night,” said his mother, Anne.
Jorgensen’s father, Eric, works in Knightstown, home of the Hoosier Gym.