by Kent Sterling Players leave programs all the time. It happens almost everywhere, and for the most part, it’s a win/win/win as the kid wins, the program he goes to wins, and the program he leaves wins. That will likely be the case for Austin Etherington, a redshirt sophomore who has asked for and has […]
by Kent Sterling March Madness doesn’t exist in Kentucky; it’s just Madness because it runs through all 12 months. There are crosstown rivalries like the Cubs and White Sox, Jets vs. Giants, and college football’s Michigan vs. Ohio State, but there is nothing quite like college basketball’s Louisville vs. Kentucky locking horns in March. When […]
Indiana Basketball – Marvin Clark Decides Tomorrow, and Whatever His Choice, You Should Know Him
by Kent Sterling When Jeff Rabjohns of peegs.com tweeted that high school basketball player Marvin Clark will announce his decision tomorrow at 10:30a to attend either Indiana, Kansas State, Michigan State, or Seton Hall, my first question was, “Who is Marvin Clark?” I found the measurements, standard bio, and a couple of highlight videos that showed […]
by Kent Sterling If the Duke program were run by anyone but Mike Krzyzewski, students and alums would storm Cameron Indoor Stadium to remove him by force after dumping first round NCAA games to Lehigh and Mercer in two of the last three years. Quaint Mercer, the 14-seed who dared to believe, finished the job […]
by Kent Sterling That clicking sound is the NCAA Men’s Tournament Selection Committee texting each other to congratulate themselves for setting up this tournament. My God, what a day of basketball. Sixteen games, and four end in overtime while Dayton, Harvard, and Texas won games that went down to the wire. Click here to follow […]
by Kent Sterling I tweeted during the Texas Southern play-in loss that coach former Hoosiers coach and current Texas Southern leader Mike Davis is to basketball coaches as Jimmy Carter is to U.S. presidents. For the next hour, people offered additional parallels, and thus the birth of this post. Leaders come in all shapes, sizes, […]
by Kent Sterling College basketball won’t be the same without Aaron Craft. Love him or hate him, during his four seasons of being a defensive pest for Thad Matta’s Ohio State Buckeyes, he left a deep impression. The way the Buckeyes bowed out to Dayton was kind of fitting in that the game was in […]
by Kent Sterling I love the beginning of NCAA tournaments because hope lies everywhere. Each of the 64 teams that begin play tomorrow in the real first round of the Big Dance have hope that they will emerge from the rubble with a win to gain entry into the 32-team event that starts this weekend. […]
by Kent Sterling Bruce Pearl broke an idiotic rule, lied about it, and encouraged others on his staff to lie to NCAA investigators. That cost him his job three days short of three years ago. Today, Bruce Pearl’s 54th birthday, he gets the gift of another chance to do again what he does best – […]
by Kent Sterling If Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean didn’t believe he was in trouble before, the fact that I am offering advice as to how the program can move forward should sufficiently spook him. I am not a basketball coach, but I’ve seen successful strategies employed in sports and in business, and there are […]