by Kent Sterling In a game like so many through the years, a team from Indiana took on another group with higher ranked players from another area and beat them by hitting open shots, and frustrating them defensively. The EG All-Stars 73-65 win over Dream Vision was impressive given the rout Dream Vision put on […]
by Kent Sterling There are some very good players in Indianapolis this weekend for the Adidas Invitational, but of the seniors-to-be games I’ve seen, there has been only one standout team – Dream Vision. Not surprising they would be the odds on favorite to win the tournament, although for many teams, winning bracket games only […]
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 On December 10, 2011, Indiana University forward Christian Watford knocked down a three-pointer at the buzzer to beat the top ranked University of Kentucky in a game that announced to the college basketball world that the Hoosiers were back. Today at a practice for the Indiana Pacers Summer League team, in an […]
by Kent Sterling Of all the places in all the world for the World University Games to be held, they chose an outpost 1,100 miles due east of Moscow. Kazan is a weird town that offers few of the distractions that any of the hundreds of better known cities in Europe that might have been […]
by Kent Sterling The shake-up at the Indianapolis Star Sports Department has a happy ending for IU beat reporter Terry Hutchens, who was removed from that position last week, and now those who relied on him for IU news will find him writing for Fox News/Scout.com, Hutchens announced this afternoon via Twitter. I'm happy to […]
by Kent Sterling “Len” is a friend of mine who emails anti-Tom Crean messages to me with regularity. Having worked with Crean twice per year while toiling for a competing Big East basketball program, he was not – and is not – a fan. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter So when he sent […]
by Kent Sterling Jordan was a guest today on “Ahead of the Curve”, and there is no way to not feel good about the Indiana University Basketball program when talking to him. He is exceptionally earnest, and very trusting in his way of playing basketball and living life. Follow Kent on Twitter by clicking here […]
The work in putting together “Ahead of the Curve” never stops. The shows immense popularity is a credit to the work done to prepare each segment for ultimate listener satisfaction and glee. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter Okay, it’s a radio show you listen to when you are in the car running errands […]
by Kent Sterling We used to joke about a former music radio program director who went to work for a consultant, “He got tired of ruining radio stations one at a time.” I thought of that joke when I read in the Rice University release announcing the resignation about athletic director Rick Greenspan leaving to […]