College athletes get four seasons to compete, and Purdue Basketball player Nojel Eastern appears eager to use his fourth somewhere else. I don’t get it. When I saw the release announcing Eastern is entering the portal, I tried to make sense of it somehow, someway. College athletes often feel the grass is greener somewhere else, […]
Matt Haarms is moving on. Haarms became famous more for his hair and celebrations than his productivity during his three seasons playing for Purdue, and fans will probably miss those two meaningless attributes. Purdue announced yesterday that Haarms has entered the transfer portal as a grad eligible player and so the hair, celebrations, and 7’3″ […]
A simple basketball game became a showcase for the wisdom and old-school parenting from an 83-year-old mentor 15 years removed from coaching his final game. “I just wanted to get those two guys focused on their kids. We can’t have Big 10 coaches squaring off like Ali and Frazier in front of 18,000 people. Someone had to […]
Breakfast with Kent – Pacers better with selective Oladipo; Butler v ‘Nova huge; Transfer rules suck; Knight coming back?
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Big 10 Basketball is a crapshoot, so let’s shoot craps to determine where Indiana and Purdue finish!
Indiana earned a fascinating win against Michigan State last night at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall with connected defense when it mattered and a couple of timely baskets by Joey Brunk and Armaan Franklin. The win lifted IU’s Big 10 record to 5-3 and dropped the Spartans into a first place tie with Illinois at 6-2. Wait. What? Indiana […]
Media guys spend a lot of time ripping teams, programs, coaches, and players. We love to laugh at failure. It makes us feel smarter. Not today. Today we congratulate a couple of guys who do it right, and are being rewarded for it. Butler AD Barry Collier has earned a five-year extension, and Purdue’s Matt […]
I’ve always been a little bit fascinated with Purdue wing Ryan Cline. When he played basketball at Carmel High School, he dominated the ball late in games that Carmel led – which was almost all of them. Teams were forced to foul him, and Cline would sprint to the foul line, wait for everyone else […]
Indiana Basketball does not need to figure out how to compete with Duke and Kentucky – it needs to find a way to catch up with Purdue. Oof! For an Indiana guy, that was hard to write, but it’s true. Purdue has gone to the NCAA Tournament five years in a row, 11 of the […]
Nothing wrong with Purdue students yelling “IU sucks!” Who does it bother?
Trying to end the “IU sucks!” chants at IU is silly. Disliking a rival is every bit as important to sports fans as their love for favorite teams, and putting collective voice to it is righteous and decent. Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter explained his feeling about ending the chant after yesterday’s win against Ohio State, “What […]
Is Indiana an elite college basketball program? Not by Ken Pomeroy’s math, they aren’t. Fans point to NCAA failures as evidence that IU’as star is dimming. No National Championships in almost 30 years. No Elite Eights since 2002. Blah, blah, blah. Forget about that March Madness stuff when evaluating IU. One-and-done tournaments reward hyped-up underdogs. […]
