The World Needs More Ninjas

Well, Midnight Madness was bittersweet tonight (photos to come shortly). There was definitely a lot more spirit than the football homecoming pep rally last week and we got to see Jeremy Piven (a.k.a. Ari Gold from Entourage) judge the Illini’s slam dunk contest. But the biggest news of the day is undoubtedly that the Hoosier’s new coach, Kelvin Sampson, screwed the Illini every which way to Sunday by getting prized recruit Eric Gordon to break his verbal commitment to Illinois and join Indiana. Yep, Samson, who bolted Oklahoma after leaving it in a recruiting mess, is already bringing his lack of recruiting integrity to the Big Ten by actively pursuing a recruit who already verballed to another school.