by Kent Sterling Maybe Indiana University Basketball Coach Tom Crean has a better agent. That’s the beginning and end of my list as to why he should be paid $710,000 more per year than Michigan coach John Beilein. Michigan announced yesterday that Beilein had signed an extension that will keep him in Ann Arbor through […]
by Kent Sterling The one player who will intrigue college coaches and fans at the NY2LA Super Jam in north suburban Milwaukee more than any other is Dream Vision’s Stephen Zimmerman, a seven-footer from Las Vegas Bishop Gorman. Zimmerman just finished playing in Indianapolis at the Adidas Invitational where Indiana offered the 2015 recruit ranked […]
by Kent Sterling The kids playing basketball on a relentless schedule this weekend in Indianapolis at the Adidas Invitational, in Atlanta at the Nike Peach Jam, and in Milwaukee and other cities next week are having a great time. The big time college coaches who are out in force evaluating them might not like it, […]
by Kent Sterling In a game like so many through the years, a team from Indiana took on another group with higher ranked players from another area and beat them by hitting open shots, and frustrating them defensively. The EG All-Stars 73-65 win over Dream Vision was impressive given the rout Dream Vision put on […]
by Kent Sterling There are some very good players in Indianapolis this weekend for the Adidas Invitational, but of the seniors-to-be games I’ve seen, there has been only one standout team – Dream Vision. Not surprising they would be the odds on favorite to win the tournament, although for many teams, winning bracket games only […]
by Kent Sterling This morning I wrote about the Indiana Basketball program, and how it needed to cover its ears to protect itself from the silent song of the one-and-done player quick fix. Dante Exum is a gifted basketball player from Australia who is considering an offer from Crean to join the Hoosiers next season […]
Australian Dante Exum Will Determine Whether Indiana Basketball Is About Winning or Education
by Kent Sterling Winning a national championship is not worth turning Indiana Basketball into a de facto AAU team where players are gathered to exploit their basketball talents, while waiting for earliest possible payday. But it’s not hard to see why Indiana coach Tom Crean would be going hard after Dante Exum, a 6’6″ point […]
by Kent Sterling On December 10, 2011, Indiana University forward Christian Watford knocked down a three-pointer at the buzzer to beat the top ranked University of Kentucky in a game that announced to the college basketball world that the Hoosiers were back. Today at a practice for the Indiana Pacers Summer League team, in an […]
by Kent Sterling Of all the places in all the world for the World University Games to be held, they chose an outpost 1,100 miles due east of Moscow. Kazan is a weird town that offers few of the distractions that any of the hundreds of better known cities in Europe that might have been […]
by Kent Sterling The shake-up at the Indianapolis Star Sports Department has a happy ending for IU beat reporter Terry Hutchens, who was removed from that position last week, and now those who relied on him for IU news will find him writing for Fox News/Scout.com, Hutchens announced this afternoon via Twitter. I'm happy to […]
