by Kent Sterling There are some Indiana fans who remain unsold on the coaching acumen of Tom Crean, and after last season’s woes Purdue fans are losing a little patience with Matt Painter. But very few could name 50 coaches better than both. Click here to follow Kent Sterling on Twitter Yesterday, ESPN released coaches […]
I always feel a bit silly trying to figure out what’s going on in the heads of 16 year-old basketball players during summer tournaments like the Adidas Gauntlet – Indianapolis that wrapped up yesterday in Fishers, Indiana. There are players who look good one game and terrible the next, and deciding which represents the real […]
by Kent Sterling When I was a student, as long as I did my work, report cards were a lot of fun. If I made choices that kept me away from work, I sweated out mail delivery everyday until the bad news came. Today is a lot like that for athletic directors across the country […]
by Kent Sterling [Editor’s note: This is an odd time to opine about the future of Tom Crean at Indiana, but their are only so many days that I can write twice or more about the Indiana Pacers and Donald Sterling. I assume readers might be a little Donald Sterling fatigued themselves.] Like it or […]
by Kent Sterling Being arrested for illegal consumption and possession of a fake ID while in college is almost a rite of passage, and Indiana basketball players Yogi Ferrell and Stanford Robinson became members of that club at Kilroy’s Sports Bar early thing morning, according to a release from the Indiana State Excise Police. Getting […]
by Kent Sterling Not getting arrested in Bloomington during Little 500 weekend is a lot like not being caught by a grizzly bear chasing a group of campers, you don’t have to be fast, just don’t be the slowest. Avoiding police attention during the Little 500 weekend that started in earnest last night does not […]
by Kent Sterling Kenny Johnson decided to chase cash 90 minutes south of Bloomington at the University of Louisville, and the pipeline to solid east coast recruits likely went with him. So far, Indiana has a 17-15 record and no trip to the NCAA or NIT to show for Johnson’s influx of players from the […]
Indiana Basketball – Seven-footer Jeremiah April commits; his HS coach talks about whether he can contribute
by Kent Sterling With apologies to Paul Simon, “April Come, He Will.” Seven-footers don’t last until the spring of their senior years very often unless there is something amiss, but Jeremiah April’s high school coach Jai Steadman feels good about the player and kid who committed to the Hoosiers yesterday. Jeremiah April is a seven-footer […]
by Kent Sterling If Indiana Basketball is in a position where losing assistant coach Kenny Johnson deals them a significant blow in courting and signing talent, then Indiana is not the program fans believe it to be. If the state university in the middle of an area teeming with talent that has great heritage, beautiful […]
Indiana University student is the worst Wheel of Fortune contestant ever
by Kent Sterling The worst contestant in the long history of “Wheel of Fortune” did a great job of guessing letters, but was atrocious at solving puzzles, including one in which every letter was revealed. Sadly, he was wearing an Indiana University sweatshirt as he did it. Click here to follow Kent Sterling on Twitter […]