Category Archives: College Basketball

Kentucky Basketball – Open Letter to Recruit Andrew Wiggins
May 14, 2013

by Kent Sterling The number one incoming freshman in the country is going to announce his decision today, and there are four finalists from which he’s going to choose – North Carolina, Florida State, Kansas, and Kentucky. I would love for the very best players in the country to make their decisions based upon something […]

Big Ten Basketball – Is It Too Late for the Big Ten to Reconsider Admitting Rutgers?
May 11, 2013

by Kent Sterling Jeez.  Who’s in charge over at Rutgers? Not two months after basketball coach Mike Rice was told to pack a box after years of verbal and physical abuse were revealed in hilarious and horrifying practice videos, Deadspin has uncovered his replacement never earned the degree he has claimed to. Yep.  Eddie Jordan […]

College Basketball – Here Come More Trips to the Monitor
May 11, 2013

by Kent Sterling  The quest to get every call right is killing the momentum of a great great, and those interruptions are going to become more frequent during the 2013-2014 college basketball season. Here are the changes, as reported by ESPN: Refs can now go to the monitor in the final two minutes to check […]

Trey Lyles Recruiting – Here Comes Loyola-Chicago!
May 10, 2013

by Kent Sterling There is something creepy about caring deeply about where a high school kid is going to go to college, but for the same reason ‘American Idol’ transfixed America (while the judges were interesting), trying to project high school athletes into a collegiate environment is fun. So I keep track of the kids […]

Bob Knight Is Back with More Crap for Sale
May 9, 2013

by Kent Sterling When there were a few more boxes than I would like in our attic, the Sterlings had a family garage sale where we netted $500.  Bob Knight is evidently not a fan of garage sales.  His junk is available for sale at auction on Steinersports.com. To be fair, there is some one-of-a-kind memorabilia […]

NCAA Shows a More User Friendly Side in Expanding Basketball Practice Window
May 4, 2013

by Kent Sterling Most of the time in business, logic isn’t enough to motivate bureaucrats to change a policy.  Nowhere has that been historically truer than at the NCAA. Wonderfully, magically, magnificently – the NCAA announced yesterday a change in the preseason practice window that will allow teams to practice six weeks prior to the […]

Purdue Basketball – Errick Peck a Great Target for Vacant Scholarship
May 3, 2013

by Kent Sterling Purdue has three scholarships open for next season – assuming Sandi Marcius doesn’t return – and one of those rides could belong to Indianapolis Cathedral product Errick Peck. Peck, who has earned his degree at Cornell, is one of the new breed of one-and-one players who are allowed to use their last […]

UW Green Bay Basketball Coach in Trouble as Walk-on Soils Himself
April 30, 2013

by Kent Sterling It’s time for the masses to rise up and smite the tyrants.  College basketball players are not buck privates who need to be prepared for battle, and coaches are not drill sergeants.  The time has come for a redefinition of roles in collegiate athletics. If reports of an incident at the University […]

Ball State Basketball Back on Track
April 25, 2013

by Bert Beiswanger Times, they are a changing in Muncie. So it seems. The nightmare that has been almost a decade of futility for Ball State basketball appears to be over. After a string of bad hires and poor leadership from the top of the university down through the athletics department, Ball State basketball fans […]