by Kent Sterling Tonight two teams other than Indiana University will play for the National Championship, but this afternoon was a perfect time to relive some of the moments and people who have made the Indiana Basketball program unique in its purity and success. There was a time when March came with an air of […]
by Kent Sterling There is one reason to watch a high school all-star basketball game like the McDonald’s All-American contest that was played last night in Chicago – to identify and assess the kids who will be freshman at the university of which you are a fan. After all, nobody has any affinity to one […]
by Kent Sterling It was inevitable that an addlepated knucklehead on a message board would put two and two together to make 17 when Park Tudor head basketball coach Ed Schilling was hired by UCLA’s Steve Alford. The thinking from the message board conspiracy theorists is that Alford must have hired Ed Schilling because of […]
by Kent Sterling The re-emergence of Indiana University’s basketball program has been a steady upward climb since the remnants of the grim Kelvin Sampson era walked out the door after not finding new coach Tom Crean to their liking. But like every climb, up can only be so high, and now after rising to the […]
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 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 Tom Crean is rolling. The years of building relationships with summer and high school coaches, and families around Indiana is paying off. The result is a 2012 recruiting class that Rivals has named the best in the country. Already committed are (with Rivals ranking in parentheses): PF Hanner Perea (#15) PG Kevin Ferrell (#28) […]
by Kent Sterling What the hell kind of an awful representation of the state of Indiana would prowl the sidelines at Memorial Stadium if Indiana University decided to re-animate the long dormant mascot program at IU? Terry Hutchens of the Indianapolis Star wrote a piece today quoting several fans, all with very different ideas about […]
by Kent Sterling Things in Bloomington are quiet – too quiet. The news in Bloomington generally pours out of Cook Hall to the tens of thousands of Indiana faithful who continue to wait patiently for the development of the current roster , as well as the arrival of the next wave of Indiana kids who […]
by Kent Sterling For many years ending in 2009, friends and I attended the Little 500 bike race at Indiana University as students and alums, and we did things that were brash, stupid, funny, and mean-spirited. Many of those things we did, you cannot do today because we did them first. Never an arrest. Never […]
