SEATTLE — Kelvin Sampson ended two days of playing public peek-a-boo by slipping out as his former boss at Indiana thanked the NCAA for its two-day, closed-door hearing before a panel that will determine whether the former coach violated recruiting rules.

"I would like to thank the NCAA Committee on Infractions for granting us the opportunity to present our case and our institutional position during this hearing," Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan wrote in a statement handed out today by senior associate athletic director Tim Fitzpatrick in the lobby of the Hotel Deca to complete a cloak-and-dagger weekend in which no one wanted to talk.

AS FITZPATRICK ISSUED IU'S STATEMENT, SAMPSON, WHOM THE NCAA ACCUSES OF PROVIDING FALSE AND MISLEADING INFORMATION TO INVESTIGATORS ABOUT MORE THAN 100 IMPERMISSIBLE PHONE CALLS TO RECRUITS, LEFT OUT OF VIEW.