Cherelle George is playing basketball again after two years off the court:

The free agent pickup for the Indiana Fever says she’s responsible for Purdue spending two years on probation. That’s why she found it an odd coincidence that a team that plays just 65 miles from the West Lafayette campus would sign her.

“My mother was scared,” George joked. “She said ‘Don’t come out of your hotel room.”’

George’s joke hides the pain she said she still deals with after making an error in judgment that sent shockwaves through the Purdue athletic program.