Most of the questions directed to Rob Phinisee aren’t about him.
The soft-spoken junior guard more regularly fields inquiries into his teammates, or the state of the IU team in general.
Having spent his first two seasons in Bloomington playing with the likes of Trayce Jackson-Davis, Devonte Green and Romeo Langford, it’s not a shock that Phinisee was so often tasked with describing the way his teammates, and those three in particular, looked on the court.
Phinisee’s third season in Bloomington is set to offer more of the same. Green and Langford may be gone, but Jackson-Davis remains, and the lion’s share of the attention figures to go toward the elite big man as well as Khristian Lander, the five-star recruit who brings quickness and a scoring punch to the Indiana backcourt.