Mike Woodson doesn’t like to wait around. “It’s just my nature,” he says. This much became apparent when he arrived in Bloomington the same afternoon that he was hired at Indiana. The following day, he was already meeting with players. At the time, he inherited a roster with six players in the transfer portal and no coaching staff.
Twelve days later, Woodson has done the following: convinced four players in the transfer portal to stay at IU, retained Kenya Hunter on staff, hired Dane Fife, persuaded All-American Trayce Jackson-Davis to return next season and added a dynamic guard from Pittsburgh in Xavier Johnson.