by Kent Sterling Since Tom Crean’s first season in Bloomington, it’s been easy to express optimism about the Hoosiers. “It’s going to be better this year,” has been the mantra. Those day’s are apparently over. Indiana doesn’t shoot it well (making only 31.5% from behind the arc), and averages only 12 assists on 27.2 field […]
by Kent Sterling With yesterday’s announcement that Indiana University basketball player Luke Fischer is leaving the team and school, I thought it worth recalling the experience of another freshman who found it difficult to assimilate to the Bloomington lifestyle. College seemed like it was going to be fun. How could it not? Almost 40,000 students […]
by Kent Sterling There are still people in Indiana and elsewhere who believe that Assembly Hall should have former coach Bob Knight’s name affixed to it forever despite Knight wanting nothing at all to do with his former place of employment. The way Knight was treated by Indiana University during his last year was shameful. […]
by Kent Sterling Tom Crean’s sixth Indiana basketball team is young, athletic, and lacks a collective purpose. The Hoosiers lost to Notre Dame in the Crossroads Classic 79-72, leaving fans to wonder who in the Big Ten they might beat. Hoosier Hysteria doesn’t only refer to what happens on the court. It’s also an apt […]
by Kent Sterling One of the great things about living in Indianapolis is that beget to enjoy more great sporting events per capita than any city in the world. Indy is unlikely ever to host an Olympics or World Series, but we are blessed with almost nonstop spectator events. The NCAA will host its signature […]
by Kent Sterling When? I don’t know, but college athletes who demonstrate value related to revenue generation for their schools will be paid for their services beyond the cost of a college education. It might be in two years, five years, or 20 years, but student-athletes who are forced to utilize college athletics as a […]
by Kent Sterling We have seen the 2013-2014 Indiana Hoosiers play against bad teams, and now we have seen them play against a very good team. Based upon those performances, the Hoosiers have a lot of room to grow during coach Tom Crean’s sixth season. There are a couple of positive things Indiana fans can […]
by Kent Sterling The 2-3 zone has been mostly relegated to the dustbin of defensive contrivances employed by coaches of fourth grade basketball teams who don’t know enough about man-to-man to teach it to children – except in Syracuse. Jim Boeheim has won 927 games using the 2-3 zone as his defense since 1976. That […]
by Kent Sterling Regardless of what the NCAA has to say about it, former Indiana University basketball coach is an unrepentant mope. That his penalty for brazenly ignoring rules regarding contact with recruits is lifted today does nothing to ameliorate the damage his hubris, stupidity, and amorality caused at Assembly Hall. The five-year period NCAA […]
by Kent Sterling Bob Knight hasn’t been the head coach at Indiana in over 13 years. That means it’s unlikely any kid currently in high school can recall a time when the big man in the red sweater prowled the sidelines for the Hoosiers. But that doesn’t mean Knight isn’t still a figure looming over […]