by Kent Sterling Victor Oladipo will leave Indiana University with some unfinished business. He’s forfeiting 25% of his college experience to roll with the pros in the NBA. Good for Oladipo because he is going to be a top ten pick, and maybe a top five pick. Because Oladipo isn’t a moron who who buy […]
by Kent Sterling I get it. Leaving Indiana University early in exchange for $10-million is a decision I would have made with glee. When I was approved as a senior for a Sears Credit Card with a credit limit of $260, I threw a party. Telling a kid not to leave is lunacy. But that’s […]
by Kent Sterling It doesn’t happen everyday, but there are still coaches out there who take responsibility for a mistake in a big moment of a huge game. Michigan coach John Beilein stood up and publicly took a bullet. In doing so he hopefully set an example that other coaches and business leaders might follow. […]
by Kent Sterling I’m calling it right now. Indiana will win. Yesterday, I picked Louisville to win by six. What happened? Louisville won by six. I’m on a roll, and this top ten is an effort to strike while the iron is hot. 10 – Indiana won their last two titles in 1981 and 1987. […]
by Kent Sterling Last night, Louisville did what they do. They won by finding a way to make a couple of two-minute stretches break the backs of their opponent. Luke Hancock knocked down shots, and Michigan didn’t have enough second half answers to get over the hump that got bigger with every possession. As with […]
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 After two-and-a-half weeks of craziness, the matchup between Louisville and Michigan is hardly an upset. Louisville was the overall top seed, and Michigan was a millimeter away from a putback dropping to tie Indiana for the regular season Ben Ten Championship. Tonight at 9:23p, the Cardinals and Wolverines will play 40 minutes […]
by Kent Sterling Last night, my wife and I brought our son Ryan to see Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis. We did it because he needs to see a man who truly enjoys his job. There are very few times in life that we get to […]
by Kent Sterling NCAA chief Mark Emmert is frustrated, and that was clear in the defiant tone at his press conference yesterday. He has good reason to be frustrated. The problems are everywhere, and the solutions are impossible to enact. That will turn a guy who had high hopes when reporting to Indianapolis for duty […]
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 […]
