IUHoosiers.com
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Mike Woodson's next great athletic challenge looms and perspective is as clear and pure as the jump shot that once lit up scoreboards across the Big Ten.
"We're not here just to play, man," he says. "There's always been a lot at stake here."
Woodson is not running Indiana's tradition rich basketball program after nearly a quarter century of NBA coaching, nine as a head coach, to bask in the glow of the off-season honeymoon that greets every new hire.
He's here to win big, instantly, if possible, to do it the right way, to develop young players and young men on and off the court, to make a difference at the university where he once thrived as a Big Ten MVP under Hall of Famer Bob Knight.