The Inside the Hall Twitter mailbag is a weekly collection of questions tweeted to us via our Twitter account, @insidethehall. Tweet us your questions each week and we’ll answer as many as we can. Now, onward …

@JohnDMercer writes: will Mo get a medical redshirt?

Alex Bozich: Tom Crean said shortly after Maurice Creek’s injury that he would petition the NCAA to get an extra year for his sophomore guard. Here’s the quote on that situation by Crean from shortly after the injury: “Because he’s basically right now played one year inside of two. I would hope that down the road we’re going to get the leniency on that, because this has been through no fault of his own.” But the rule for a medical redshirt (or hardship waiver, as it’s sometimes called) is playing in less than 30 percent of your team’s games with none coming after the second half of the season. In both seasons, Creek played in more than 30 percent of Indiana’s games and this season, he played during the second half of the season. It obviously won’t hurt to try the petition, but precedent says it’s not likely to happen.

@MicahMcVicker writes: Has anything changed regarding McGary’s status?

Alex Bozich: McGary, who told Inside the Hall back in December that he had an offer for 2011 from Indiana, has ruled out the possibility that he’ll enroll in college after this school year. It seemed like a long shot that’d he stay in the 2011 class when I spoke with him a few months back as McGary was retaking courses at Brewster Academy in New Hampshire to improve on his core GPA. Indiana is still keeping tabs on him as far as I know, but with four commitments already secured in the 2012 class, it’s not clear how he might fit into the Hoosiers’ plan for that class. Gary Harris and Jeremy Hollowell appear to be higher priorities and the scholarship situation would have to change in order for IU to take more than five recruits.

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