Gary Parrish

Former Indiana standout Jordan Crawford is transferring to Xavier.

That means the Musketeers will have two players in their program who were supposed to be Hoosiers this season -- the other being Terrell Holloway, who signed with IU but was granted a release after Tom Crean took over the mess left behind by Kelvin Sampson. Meantime, Crean will have just one returning player to work with: Former walk-on Kyle Taber.

Crawford averaged 9.7 points last season, fourth on the team behind Eric Gordon (now in the NBA), D.J. White (now in the NBA) and Armon Bassett (transferred to UAB). Under normal circumstances the 6-foot-4 guard would sit out this season because of NCAA transfer rules, but Xavier plans to request a waiver citing the turmoil at IU that precipitated Crawford's transfer, though it's unclear whether it will be granted.

Either way, Crawford will have three years of eligibility remaining whenever he starts playing again.

It's not a good day to be an ex-SEC athlete.

First came the story of how former Arkansas football player Matt Jones was busted chopping lines of cocaine inside a car. Then came the story of how former Florida basketball player Teddy Dupay is facing felony charges of rape, aggravated kidnapping and sexual assault following an arrest in Utah that is the result of Dupay getting "a little rough" with a woman.

And those aren't my words, by the way.

Those are Dupay's words.

After the woman was found to have bruises on her outer right thigh, scratches on her back, large bruises on her back, large bruises on her upper arm and shoulder, a swollen eye and two broken ribs, Dupay admitted to investigators that things got "a little rough" but denied raping her because, as he put it, "How can you rape someone you love?"

Wow.

Anyway, in honor of Dupay's affection for gambling, I'm willing to set the odds at 1-to-5 that the former Gator finds himself facing serious jailtime, where upon he just might learn how rapes between loved ones unfortunately happen all the time.

As do rapes between cellmates.