Category Archives: Purdue Basketball

Breakfast with Kent – Five teams from Indiana in Midwest – Only one can beat Kentucky!
March 16, 2015

Carmel’s Ryan Cline is my Mr. Basketball for 2015
March 13, 2015

by Kent Sterling Great shooter. Great kid. Great winner. Great leader. Good enough for me. I don’t know all the candidates for Mr. Basketball, the most coveted individual prize in Indiana high school basketball, but I’ve seen a lot of Carmel High School’s Ryan Cline and spoken to him at reasonable length. He is the […]

Indiana Basketball – IHSAA sectionals and a great effort by Purdue and Michigan State distract from potential “Creaning” of Tom Crean
March 5, 2015

by Kent Sterling Like most people who grew attached to Indiana University Basketball during an extended stay as a student – a leisurely, but stressful six years for me – the occasionally interrupted mediocrity of the Hoosiers program under Tom Crean is baffling and a source of angst. I spent the majority of my radio […]

Indiana Basketball – Loss to Purdue drives season in wrong direction at wrong time for Tom Crean
February 20, 2015

by Kent Sterling Indiana lost a basketball game to Purdue last night at Assembly Hall that dropped them to 8-6 in the Big Ten – one-half game ahead of two teams tied for seventh. The most troubling part of the night for Indiana fans should be the opening comment coach Tom Crean delivered in his […]

Indiana vs.Purdue – Tonight’s winner will earn a trip to the NCAA Tournament
February 19, 2015

by Kent Sterling Indiana vs. Purdue used to be something else. Streets in Indiana emptied. Kids were allowed to stay up past bedtime. Gene Keady and Bob Knight matched wits and wills. Knight brought a donkey onto the set of his TV as a replacement for the Purdue AD, and Keady profanely threatened campers who […]

College Basketball – Nut cutting weekend for Butler, Purdue, and Indiana as NCAA bids are on the line
February 13, 2015

by Kent Sterling The longer you contend in a race, the more important the next mile is. The college basketball regular season is within a month of ending, and four Indiana teams that suffered a rare shutout from last year’s NCAA Tournament are back in contention for bids. Notre Dame is a done deal. The […]

Indiana vs. Purdue tonight – Time for a return of anger and bitterness in this once great rivalry
January 28, 2015

by Kent Sterling Knight vs. Keady was the State of Indiana’s version of Ali vs. Frazier, and fans loved it. For 20 glorious seasons, those two coaching heavyweights appeared to hate each other and all their rival stood for. It was glorious era of combative basketball and behavior from two historic programs and coaches. They […]

Top Ten biggest Indiana stories and people for 2015 – Tom Crean’s future, Paul George’s health, Andrew Luck’s pursuit greatness, and more
January 7, 2015

by Kent Sterling There is a lot going on in Indiana sports, but nothing quite as compelling as predicting the future of people on the brink of success and failure, and it’s those stories that will captivate us in 2015. 10 – What the hell happened to Brandon Miller to cause him to decide to […]

Indianapolis Colts finally pull away; IU struggles to beat Lamar; IUPUI beats Ball State in OT in classic
November 24, 2014

by Kent Sterling People took to Twitter early in the second half of what would become a blowout win for the Indianapolis Colts to taunt for predicting an easy win for the Horseshoes on my radio show (weekdays 3p-6p – CBS Sports 1430). They blamed me for jinxing the thing by being so confident in […]

Indiana and Purdue both post big wins; might get back to the NCAA Tourney this year
November 21, 2014

by Kent Sterling Purdue beating Grambling State is hardly big news. There is no way that Grambling State should ever be able to compete with the Boilermakers. It was the way Purdue won the game that’s impressive. After a first half where they led 37-15, Purdue backed it up with a 45-15 half. That showed […]