Indiana Athletic Director Fred Glass will wait until the season ends and then evaluate the basketball program. The decision will be made to either retain Tom Crean as the basketball coach or relieve him of his responsibilities. There are two sects of Indiana Basketball fans – those who view Crean as the hero of IU […]
Breakfast with Kent – Ryan previews IU; Etherington goes off in Butler win; Purdue beats NW
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So there I stand at Drake’s on 82nd Street in Indianapolis picking up some carry out, and the Indiana game against Penn State starts. A guy I met because he listens to my radio show asks, “Are you sticking around for the Indiana game?” “Nope, just picking up some food,” I tell him. As I […]
Indiana held serve through its first seven Big Ten games against sub-par team this season – a season where coach Tom Crean is fighting to keep his job despite the gravity of fan dissatisfaction. Early season losses to Wake Forest, UNLV, and Duke showed the same variety of difficulties (defensive deficiencies in both scheme and […]
If Indiana beats Illinois tonight at Assembly Hall in Bloomington, the Hoosiers will have put together a 6-0 Big Ten start for the first time in the Tom Crean era. There was a bit of panic among Hoosiers fans after a two-loss trip to Maui and a less than competitive trip to Duke, but Indiana […]
Tonight, the journey begins for the Indiana Hoosiers. A deep and talented backcourt coupled with a refurbished group of bigs have fans in Bloomington excited about basketball again this year – just like last year and the year before that. Tweet
by Kent Sterling “On this week’s episode of Ain’t no Party like a Hoosier Party, the boys welcome an old friend back to the show for a night of revelry that begins with laughter, but ends with another hilarious headache for Coach Crean!” That’s the promo for what should be a reality based sitcom that couldn’t […]
by Kent Sterling Two Indiana basketball players get popped for underage possession of alcohol. What’s the big deal? One of two things can be assumed to be true because of the relentless behavioral issues authored by basketball players – that Tom Crean understands kids will be kids and drinking will be a reality for most […]
by Kent Sterling It’s the silly season for sports content providers, but that’s no excuse for ESPN being so wrong in assessing the quality of Indiana college basketball teams. With only one major sports league playing meaningful games until after Labor Day and college/high school football being a couple of weeks away from their openers, […]
by Kent Sterling “It all works out,” has been the routine response to questions about Tom Crean’s practice of oversigning players without a publicly shared scheme for how scholarships might be available for the new blood. What is “Creaning”? Division One basketball programs are allotted 13 scholarships, and without knowing how many players might go […]