by Kent Sterling Kentucky is just too big and athletic for UConn to beat tonight, or so I believe. The work Kentucky does on the offensive glass makes them a very tough team to put away. In every game in this tourney, the Wildcats have outpaced opponents on the offensive glass for a total advantage […]
by Kent Sterling Once your favorite team or alma mater is eliminated from the NCAA Tournament, all you can really hope for is context so you have someone to root for and/or against as the Saturday semifinals tip off. There is plenty of both heading to Cowboys Stadium. The only team about which their is […]
by Kent Sterling “Calipari doesn’t like the (one-and-done) rule anymore than you do!” a relentless wave of Kentucky fans write in their comments to my posts critical of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari. They also write that Calipari just recruits the kids destined for the NBA better than anyone else, and to hate Kentucky for […]
by Kent Sterling Winning is not about gaining an advantage through systemic deceit – it’s the pursuit of answering adversity with grit, finding a way through the pain to outwork your opponents, motivating teammates to embrace a common cause, and subverting selfish wants for collective success. Victory without embracing those concepts is meaningless. Championships as […]
by Kent Sterling With every word out of John Calipari’s mouth at the Midwest Sweet Sixteen in Indianapolis, I lost more faith in humanity. During a time when honesty matters less and less in government and business, Calipari is setting a course for the sub-basement where truth is not acknowledged as a concept. His assessments […]
by Kent Sterling You remember George O’Leary, right? In 2001, he left Georgia Tech for his dream job as the head football coach at the University of Notre Dame. A little fact checking was done, and O’Leary was a goner. O’Leary claimed to have received a degree at “SUNY – Stony Brook University” – an […]
by Kent Sterling When the seeds held in the sub-regional of the 1983 NCAA Tournament, a very cool opportunity availed itself for Indiana University students who were interested in making a small investment and taking a little drive south to Knoxville, Tennessee. Big Ten champion Indiana was scheduled to play Kentucky, and Louisville would play […]
by Kent Sterling March Madness doesn’t exist in Kentucky; it’s just Madness because it runs through all 12 months. There are crosstown rivalries like the Cubs and White Sox, Jets vs. Giants, and college football’s Michigan vs. Ohio State, but there is nothing quite like college basketball’s Louisville vs. Kentucky locking horns in March. When […]
by Kent Sterling Dick Vitale wants Kentucky and Indiana to agree to play one another in a four-year series – one game each in Assembly Hall, Rupp Arena, Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, and the Yum! Center in Louisville. He also wants cancer to stop killing kids. The last time the two teams played a […]
by Kent Sterling Kentucky Basketball’s tradition will be celebrated in the architecture of the renovation to Rupp Arena that is scheduled to be completed by 2017, and will cost $310 million. Click here to follow Kent on Twitter There will be the typical upgrades like enough wi-fi bandwidth for all 23,000 fans, seat backs in […]