by Kent Sterling Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean went to sleep last night smiling. All but the nuttiest critics of his leadership in Bloomington had finally fallen silent. If you went into the 2014-2015 college basketball season believing that Crean was months away from being the latest former coach at IU and that Brad Stevens […]
by Kent Sterling When the 2014-2015 season started, college basketball analysts assumed Indiana would be a very mediocre Big Ten team, lacking size and cohesiveness. Well, they were half right. The Hoosiers are undersized, especially since the injury to Hanner Mosquera-Perea, but they play with trust and togetherness. That has been enough to make Indiana […]
by Kent Sterling Hanner Mosquera-Perea injured his knee yesterday, and is expected to miss the next two to four weeks. People believe this will present a hardship for Indiana’s basketball team, because Mosquera-Perea is the tallest and most athletic of the Hoosiers. During the first 90 seconds of the past two games, Mosquera-Perea committed two […]
by Kent Sterling How soon hopeful Indiana fans forgot the manic depressive stylings of last year’s up and down squad as they excitedly awaited last night’s game against Michigan State in East Lansing. Last season, tears filled Kirkwood Avenue after the Hoosiers opened the Big Ten season 0-2 with losses to Illinois and Michigan State. […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana Basketball continues to tantalize and taunt in equal measure. Talent and scheme show stretches that give fans reason for hope, then moments of borderline incompetence have fans on their feet screaming at the TV or court. Is Indiana a team on the come, or are they as mediocre as many thought […]
by Kent Sterling Last night, Purdue and Nebraska lost to teams they were supposed to beat in Gardner-Webb and Hawaii. Indiana beat a team it was supposed to by 20 points – the inept Privateers of New Orleans. Actually, I haven’t seen New Orleans play, so calling them inept is uninformed commentary. Hard to blame […]
by Kent Sterling There is a sect of people who simply don’t like Tom Crean, and others who don’t care much for Kevin Wilson. Or, they are big fans of the rule that consequences should follow mediocre results. People want a level of scorched earth comeuppance for the leaders of Indiana’s two marquee programs that […]
by Kent Sterling I’m not from Cleveland, so I don’t know what it’s truly like to know the misery unique to sports fans in that inhospitable city. But I did grow up in Chicago – a Cubs fan because my Dad was one, and likely his dad before that. Chicago has had eras of great […]
by Kent Sterling 2014 has not been a good year for Indiana University head basketball coach Tom Crean – yet. Four players arrested/cited, two suspended because of multiple dirty drug tests, one player hospitalization because of an incident that fractured Devin Davis’s skull, a 17-15 record that result in a postseason tournament shutout, and most […]
by Kent Sterling With change at the top, you know what happens – a guaranteed additional two years of rebuild-driven wretchedness. The football programs at Indiana and Purdue have seen that misery up close for more than 30 years, minus the Bill Mallory and Joe Tiller eras in Bloomington and West Lafayette. As athletic directors […]