by Kent Sterling After watching hundreds of workouts and shoot arounds, one thing I know is that using them to predict the outcomes of games is impossible. Louisville is loose as hell, laughing, shooting, and enjoying themselves. That’s the way the Cardinals have rolled forever. I remember at the regional finals in Knoxville in 1983 […]
by Kent Sterling Everyone knows that the so-called experts haven’t got a license on prognostication any more than the women who watch one half on college hoops and then win their office pool, but the day of a huge game we need to know what the smart guys think. The smart guys have weighed in […]
by Kent Sterling I’ve written often about a class of 2007 summer team that played together without ego, a lack of concern for being recruited, and a love for one another that oddly remains the exception to the rule in youth basketball. With the successes of Florida Gulf Coast, LaSalle, and Wichita State in last […]
by Kent Sterling Bill Carmody can coach. Make no mistake about that. Northwestern is going to find out whether Collins can coach, and Collins is determined to find out whether Northwestern is capable of building a winning program. CBSsports.com is reporting that Chris Collins has agreed to be the next head coach at the only […]
by Kent Sterling VCU head coach Shaka Smart is going to be offered the UCLA job if he wants it. Duke assistant Chris Collins has reportedly interviewed for the Northwestern job. There will be dozens of jobs available this offseason – USC, Minnesota, Ball State, among the many others – and Brad Stevens will be […]
by Kent Sterling It’s been almost five years since Indiana University hired Tom Crean to run it’s basketball program, and that is the same amount of time I’ve taken in trying to figure out what it is I don’t care for in Crean. Today, thanks to an on-air intervention by 1070 the Fan host Dan […]
by Kent Sterling Weird on a day that saw the Indiana Hoosiers lose to Butler to write about what a great job Tom Crean is doing in Bloomington as the architect of a reclamation project that the programmers of HGTV wouldn’t touch with a ten foot support beam. The truth is that kids are developing […]
by Kent Sterling Indiana Basketball beat their neighbor to the south 73-72. You know, the one that keeps kids around for nine months and turns them loose to the NBA. Yeah, those guys in blue and white. This is THE win that fans in Bloomington have waited for since disgraced former coach ran the SS […]
by Kent Sterling College basketball is nutty. On its face, the Ed DeChellis to Navy move looks like the act of a mentally unstable man. Why would a guy leave the Big Ten for a Patriot League gig at a military academy where the academic standards are rigid and very high? Add to that, Billy […]
by Kent Sterling Basketball purists hate summer basketball. They say it erodes the specialness of the high school seasons, and features kids doing little more than what they used to do at playgrounds in previous generations. High school coaches hate it as it erodes the influence they have over a kid. College coaches love it […]
