What happened to Jay Edwards?

He probably left too early. Things seemed a bit out of control for Edwards at the end. He left school before the end of the semester, had some criminal issues, and never seemed to get it together. Edwards had some drug trouble at the end of his freshman year but Knight let him back on the team. It’s hard to imagine he would have lasted four years in Bloomington, but it would have been better for him if he had. Definitely seemed to be more of a mental/character issue that led to his demise than anything else.

Didn’t Jay run up a bunch of parking violations? Great, great shooter (maybe the best at Indiana since the beginning of the Bob Knight era, which is saying something), but self-control issues. In retrospect it’s hard to believe he lasted as long as he did under Bob Knight.

Jay was a great Indiana high school basketball player, too; he won three state titles for the Marion Giants; they went 85-4 while he was on the varsity. I was in the stands for one of those losses, a game where Jay dominated but his game-winning shot bounced off at the buzzer.