by Kent Sterling Point guard Noah Robotham of Bishop Gorman High School in Las Vegas is playing with Dream Vision, and last week at the Adidas Invitational, a lot of eyes were on him because his high school and summer teammate Stephen Zimmerman is being recruited by everyone. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter […]
by Kent Sterling The kids playing basketball on a relentless schedule this weekend in Indianapolis at the Adidas Invitational, in Atlanta at the Nike Peach Jam, and in Milwaukee and other cities next week are having a great time. The big time college coaches who are out in force evaluating them might not like it, […]
by Kent Sterling Nine games in five days is a lot of basketball for anybody, much less high school age kids, and thatwear and tear showed in the championship game of the Adidas Invitational at North Central High school today. ESPNU viewers deserve better. Spiece Indy Ice got off to a quick 17-2 start this […]
by Kent Sterling There is something wonderful about summer basketball tournaments. From one game to the next, you have no inkling what might happen. Teams that are assembled from neighborhoods can go to war against the nation’s best, and you never know. Some are well coached and others are led by a goofball who spends […]
by Kent Sterling This morning I wrote about the Indiana Basketball program, and how it needed to cover its ears to protect itself from the silent song of the one-and-done player quick fix. Dante Exum is a gifted basketball player from Australia who is considering an offer from Crean to join the Hoosiers next season […]
Australian Dante Exum Will Determine Whether Indiana Basketball Is About Winning or Education
by Kent Sterling Winning a national championship is not worth turning Indiana Basketball into a de facto AAU team where players are gathered to exploit their basketball talents, while waiting for earliest possible payday. But it’s not hard to see why Indiana coach Tom Crean would be going hard after Dante Exum, a 6’6″ point […]
by Kent Sterling The anti-Kentucky faction that enjoyed watching John Calipari’s Wildcats take a first round NIT beatdown at Robert Morris last March might need to savor that moment for awhile. All five starters and two bench players are projected in the first round of next year’s draft by ESPN expert Chad Ford. Here are […]
by Kent Sterling “The Butler Way means that Butler people know best, and Butler stays in house to hire its basketball coaches. From Collier to Matta to Lickliter to Stevens has been the line of succession for almost a quarter century. None of those hires has given any reason for Athletic Director Barry Collier to […]
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 […]
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 […]