by Kent Sterling The Indiana Pacers limped into the number three seed of the NBA’s Eastern Conference Playoffs, and it doesn’t matter a damn. It’s better to be the three seed having lost five of six, than to win six in a row as the four seed – especially if it means playing the Atlanta […]
by Kent Sterling Next year, the NCAA will force college players to decide whether they will forgo their remaining eligibility to enter the NBA Draft by the middle of April, and that will make it very difficult for a kid and his family to make the right choice. Not everyone deciding to leave college for […]
by Kent Sterling With Shelvin Mack leaving for the NBA, the best team in Horizon League history just lost its best remaining player, but it still remains a special program, and that is going to have to be enough for fans. What they were able to experience the last two seasons was a moment of […]
by Kent Sterling From the first NCAA Tourney in 1939 through 2009, Butler advanced to the Sweet Sixteen twice and the Elite Eight exactly zero times. In Matt Howard’s junior and senior years, they have done both twice, and are 40 minutes from their second straight trip to the Final Four. This is not to […]
by Kent Sterling There is some discontent in Bloomington. The Hoosiers have posted 16-wins over the past two seasons, and that isn’t going to get it. The recruiting class that is supposed to prove that last year’s top ten class was no fluke currently consists of two kids at positions where Indiana already has depth. […]