by Kent Sterling Iowa Basketball Coach Fran McCaffery earned two technicals after an ill-tempered eruption because of a series of calls and non-calls during what wound up as a four-point loss to undefeated Wisconsin. Big deal that it cost the Hawkeye four points, not that McCaffery might have hurt the feelings of a referee or […]
by Kent Sterling Today’s games ended much as 2013 with be remembered among hoops fans in Indiana – thrilling, but ultimately unfulfilling. The Pacers and Hoosiers kicked things off simultaneously, and I did my best to keep an eye on both while at Bankers Life Fieldhouse celebrating the New Year with the tenth sellout crowd […]
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 […]