This is the first of two lists regarding Tom Crean and the future of the Indiana Basketball program. Tomorrow’s will provide a list or reasons coach Tom Crean should be retained. Today’s enumerates the reasons a change should be made. There have been no NCAA compliance or academic issues to fuel talk of a need […]
by Kent Sterling The road to this Final Four was paved in one of two ways. Kentucky coach John Calipari has developed a system to acquire as much talent as possible, enacting it immediately upon arrival in Lexington, while the other three either built or continued a culture of excellence that regenerates each year. Indiana […]
by Kent Sterling The future of beleaguered Indiana Basketball coach Tom Crean is being weighed in Bloomington based on a number of factors. The most meaningful is money. And make no mistake, when decisions are made by adults, money is always the determining factor. There are other components, but plugging in the dollars usually leads […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana Basketball needs a leader that will define its culture and bring hope for success each season, and Tom Crean is not it. It’s not that Crean isn’t a good person, or an ineffective representative of Indiana University. There are many good things about Crean, traits you would seek in a coach […]
by Kent Sterling What kind of boob picks the eighth seeded Indiana Hoosiers to advance to the championship game of this weekend’s Big Ten Tourney? This kind of boob! These picks are for entertainment purposes only. ESPN and CBS have excellent previews as well. For non-entertainment sports insight and activation, visit Sports Betting Dime. Indiana has […]
by Kent Sterling The lead of Zach Osterman’s Indianapolis Star piece on Indiana’s road loss last night to Michigan State Spartans reads, “Indiana should leave the Breslin Center happy with its performance, even in a loss, to No. 3 Michigan State.” Has Indiana fallen so far that losses to a good team that played poorly […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana beats #3 Wisconsin, loses to heralded bottom feeding Northwestern, and then rises up to take the #3 ranked Michigan State Spartans to the wire in East Lansing. Will the real Hoo-Hoosiers please stand up, please stand up! The lead for Indiana got as high as five points at 46-41 with a […]
by Kent Sterling Not sure I’ve ever seen an Indiana team this capable of playing really well and really poorly within a four-day period. The Hoosiers weren’t perfect against #3 Wisconsin last Tuesday. The result of that game had as much to do with Wisconsin looking a step slow as it did the Hoosiers playing […]
by Kent Sterling When did Indiana Basketball secure the state border in the first place? At no point in the history of the program has IU been able to simply choose who it likes from among the state’s best players. Connor Killoren of the Indiana Daily Student would like you to believe that Indiana has chosen […]
Collin Hartman Talks About Cathedral Finishing as Indiana 4A Runners-Up
by Kent Sterling Roughly 100 4A high schools in Indiana started the state tourney with dreams of cutting down the nets in Bankers Life Fieldhouse as champions. Cathedral played in that game and lost. The hurt lingers despite being one of two teams to make it to the ultimate game. Collin Hartman talks about his […]