Category Archives: Butler Basketball

Boston Celtics Fans Should Relax; Brad Stevens Was a Great Hire Who Will Succeed
July 5, 2013

by Kent Sterling Brad Stevens is being underestimated by Celtics fans who are worried that the former Butler coach might not be ready to lead one of the most storied franchises in American sports. Boston sports fans are a clever and demanding group, so they will learn along with the players and front office staff […]

Replacing Brad Stevens, Butler Will Stay in the Family
July 4, 2013

by Kent Sterling Still stunned by Brad Stevcens’ decision to leave Butler in favor of one of the most prestigious jobs in coaching, Butler is going to stay inside the family to find Stevens successor. After a run of spectacularly successful hires following current athletic director Barry Collier moving to Nebraska, including Thad Matta, Todd […]

What a statement: Brad Stevens hired by the Boston Celtics.
July 4, 2013

by Bert Beiswanger It’s been a heck of a ride the past decade-plus, a pyramid of achievements. 15 years ago, Butler started knocking off the big boys with regularity- regular season games, pre-season tournament games, NCAA tournament games; it didn’t matter. One trip to the Sweet 16 was followed by another…and another…and another. Butler did […]

Brad Stevens Is a Credit to Coaching, Butler, and Indianapolis
July 3, 2013

by Kent Sterling There was no doubt that Brad Stevens would eventually leave Butler University for a place that represented a bigger challenge, offered significantly more money, and puts his name on a much bigger marquee.  Butler’s basketball program is a wonderful place for a coach to ply his trade, but what else was there […]

Holy Moses! Brad Stevens Going to Boston to Coach the Celtics
July 3, 2013

by Kent Sterling Impossible.  Unbelievable.  I was about to pick up the phone to call Butler to see if Brad Stevens could come on “Ahead of the Cuve” Saturday, and suddenly reports are everywhere on Twitter that he will be the next head coach of the Boston Celtics. There are many moments when I can […]

NCAA Shows a More User Friendly Side in Expanding Basketball Practice Window
May 4, 2013

by Kent Sterling Most of the time in business, logic isn’t enough to motivate bureaucrats to change a policy.  Nowhere has that been historically truer than at the NCAA. Wonderfully, magically, magnificently – the NCAA announced yesterday a change in the preseason practice window that will allow teams to practice six weeks prior to the […]

2013 NCAA Tournament – Success with Three-Star Recruits Is Nothing New
March 28, 2013

by Kent Sterling I’ve written often about a class of 2007 summer team that played together without ego, a lack of concern for being recruited, and a love for one another that oddly remains the exception to the rule in youth basketball.  With the successes of Florida Gulf Coast, LaSalle, and Wichita State in last […]

Indiana Basketball – Tom Crean Continues to Build IU Basketball the Right Way
December 15, 2012

by Kent Sterling Weird on a day that saw the Indiana Hoosiers lose to Butler to write about what a great job Tom Crean is doing in Bloomington as the architect of a reclamation project that the programmers of HGTV wouldn’t touch with a ten foot support beam. The truth is that kids are developing […]