Vaden to follow coach

The Mike Davis dominoes continue to fall more than a month after he announced his resignation.\nThis weekend Mike Davis Jr. told the Birmingham News that sophomore forward Robert Vaden would follow the Davis family down to Alabama, where Mike Davis will coach University of Alabama-Birmingham next season. \nFellow sophomore forward D.J. White still appears to be in limbo. New IU coach Kelvin Sampson told ESPN's Jim Rome that he's waiting on White's decision, but the sophomore has been attending team workouts in the meantime.\n"Mike (Davis) did such a great job with the players here and they have such a fierce loyalty to him that it was a little difficult for me at first getting the kids to understand that there's different ways to do it and here's my way," \nSampson said on Rome's April 6 radio show.\nThe fallout isn't limited to current names on the IU roster though. IU had two recruits sign letters of intent this winter, both of whom are now questionable to join the team next fall. Forward Xavier Keeling of Huntsville, Ala., said his mother requested release papers from the University, but he plans to meet with Sampson in the next couple weeks to fully make up his mind.\n"I want to give (IU) a chance, and meet coach Sampson," Keeling said. "I should make my decision by the end of this month."\nKeeling said he established a good relationship with Davis before his departure, but he's already ruled out following IU's former coach to UAB. He said his options outside of IU are attending prep school or playing for the University of Cincinnati.\n"I really wanted to play for coach Davis," Keeling said. "But I don't want to stay in Alabama."\nThe other recruit currently penciled on IU's list is Terre Haute-native Armon Bassett. The 6-foot-1 point guard played for Hargrave Military Academy this season in Virginia after playing for Terre Haute South Vigo High School.\nSouth head coach Mike Saylor said he keeps in touch with Bassett, and that his former player is scheduled to meet with Sampson sometime this week. Saylor said something should develop after that meeting.\nA phone call to Bassett was not returned by press time.\nOne player, however, is rumored to be entering IU's revolving door rather than exiting it. Junior college standout Mike White visited Bloomington this weekend, according to recruiting Web site www.peegs.com. \nHailing from Lee College in Baytown, Texas, Mike White stands 6-foot-6, weighs 245 pounds and is ranked among the top 10 junior college players in the nation, according to www.jucojunction.com. He was also named co-MVP of the Region XIV Athletic Conference All-Region Team this season.\nWhile at Oklahoma, Sampson recruited a number of junior college players, and said during his March 29 press conference that there was nothing wrong with landing the occasional two-year player.\n"When North Carolina won the national championship last year, they had a lot of two-year players," Sampson said. "You get them at the front end or back end. It just depends on how you want to look at it"