Thompson returning to IU after weighing options Share this story Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images It’ll be seven months before new Indiana men’s basketball coach Mike Woodson has an opportunity to win his first game at the college level. But a week and a half into his tenure, Woodson is already winning the offseason. Woodson scored another victory on Thursday morning with word that veteran forward Race Thompson will return to IU next season. Thompson, a team captain as a redshirt junior last year, built upon a solid sophomore season by averaging 9.1 points and 6.2 rebounds per game for the Hoosiers. With an offensive rating of 108.8, per KenPom.com, Thompson was IU’s most efficient scorer and one of merely three players in the program with an offensive rating above the national average adjusted efficiency rating of 102.0. Perhaps most importantly, Thompson gives the Hoosiers a hardened player who is willing to bump and battle underneath and play the grinding style for which the Big Ten is known.