Jordan Hulls Finishes Pro Career, Will Return Home as IU’s Recruiting Coordinator

Jordan Hulls’ skilled basketball profession got here to a detailed on Sunday as MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg misplaced to Alba Berlin 73-67 within the semifinals of the BBL Playoffs. Hulls scored 4 factors, grabbed two rebounds and dished out two assists in his ultimate sport. 

Regardless of scoring 26 factors and connecting on 6-of-9 makes an attempt from 3 in sport one in all this collection, it wasn’t sufficient for MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg to advance within the playoffs. Hulls averaged 10.5 factors, 4 assists and a pair of.2 rebounds whereas taking pictures 40.8 p.c from 3 and 92.3 p.c from the free throw line this season.

Hulls performed two seasons for MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg and clearly made an affect on the staff and neighborhood that went past the court docket.

After 4 seasons at Indiana College the place Hulls averaged 10 factors and shot 44 p.c from 3 throughout his collegiate profession, he performed 9 seasons {of professional} basketball abroad in Poland, Belgium and most lately, Germany.

He performed on 5 totally different groups, and scored a career-high 15.5 factors per sport throughout the 2017-2018 season for Eisbaren Bremerhaven in Germany. That 12 months, Hulls shot 51.8 p.c from 3 and 94.5 p.c from the free throw line. 

Over the course of his skilled profession abroad, Hulls performed 235 video games. He scored a career-high 31 factors in 2015 as a member of Limburg United and once more in 2018 for Eisbaren Bremerhaven. Hulls set his career-high for 3-pointers made in a sport with eight when Indiana defeated Northwestern in 2010, and he tied this private file once more in 2019 taking part in for S.Oliver Wurzburg.

However now it is time for Hulls to make a transition in his basketball profession from participant to a member of Indiana’s teaching workers. Hulls, alongside together with his spouse and three children, will return to his hometown of Bloomington, Ind. to hitch Mike Woodson’s workers as Indiana’s recruiting coordinator. 

A graduate of Bloomington South Excessive College, Hulls was named Indiana Mr. Basketball in 2009. He additionally gained Indiana Gatorade Participant of the 12 months in 2009 after main the Panthers to a 26-0 file and Class 4A state championship.

He performed 4 seasons at Indiana from 2009 to 2013 below former head coach Tom Crean. As a senior, he helped the Hoosiers win the 2013 Large Ten common season title and earn a No. 1 rating on 10 of 20 AP polls.

Hulls’ title is discovered all around the Indiana file books: thirtieth in scoring with 1,318 factors, fourth in profession three-point subject purpose share a 44.1 p.c and third in profession free throw share at 85.9 p.c. He additionally made an Indiana and Large Ten file 58-straight free throws over two seasons in 2010 and 2011. And by the point he graduated, Hulls’ 135 video games performed rank second amongst Hoosiers.

“It’s laborious to place into phrases what this chance means to me and my household,” Hulls stated. “Indiana College has been part of me my complete life and I couldn’t be extra excited to return house and work with Coach Woodson, your complete workers, and our gamers in this system. The relationships constructed throughout my time at IU with my teammates, coaches, and neighborhood helped form me into the particular person I’m immediately. I’m wanting ahead to constructing those self same sort of relationships as I enter into this new and thrilling chapter of life in a special position at IU.”

Woodson can be excited so as to add one other former Hoosier to the workers. 

“He is a good household man who has competed on the highest stage in highschool right here in Bloomington, as a Hoosier who gained a Large Ten title and performed for the No. 1 staff within the nation, and for the final 9 years as an expert basketball participant abroad,” stated Woodson. “Anybody you discuss to who has spent any period of time with him has the utmost respect for him. Together with his experiences, I imagine he is usually a large asset to our gamers and workers and we’re excited for he and his household to return again house.”

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• IU HIRES JORDAN HULLS: Bloomington native and 2013 Large Ten champion Jordan Hulls is headed again house to change into the recruiting coordinator for Mike Woodson’s Hoosiers. Hulls has spent the final 9 years taking part in skilled basketball, most lately for MHP Riesen of the German BBL League. CLICK HERE
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