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Chancellors' star Ebanks in middle of Indiana's mess
By Matt Stout - GateHouse News Service
Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:13 AM CST
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - Devin Ebanks lives hundreds of miles away from Bloomington, Ind. He doesn't call the small college town home, nor has he ever donned the red-and-white striped pants that Indiana University has made so famous.a

But with his future directly tied into that of the Hoosiers, the St. Thomas More senior star and centerpiece of its men's basketball team's 2008 recruiting class became as engulfed as anyone in the saga that's rocked the athletic department the last two weeks. Now, after making the biggest decision of his life to choose to play for Indiana, he'll face an even bigger one in possibly deciding to leave it.

With Indiana's move Friday to buy out the contract of coach Kelvin Sampson after it was revealed he committed five major NCAA recruiting violations, Ebanks - who signed a National Letter of Intent to play in Bloomington last November - may have the option of opting out of his commitment, if he so chooses to.

It's a decision he and his mother, Yvonne Jackson, are waiting to make.

?It's been an overwhelming week-and-a-half,? Jackson said by phone Saturday. ?But right now, we probably won't decide anything with him until he finishes his basketball season, to actually sit down with him and (St. Thomas More) Coach (Jere) Quinn and just figure out basically what we might want to do.?

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