by Kent Sterling Players leave programs all the time. It happens almost everywhere, and for the most part, it’s a win/win/win as the kid wins, the program he goes to wins, and the program he leaves wins. That will likely be the case for Austin Etherington, a redshirt sophomore who has asked for and has […]
by Kent Sterling March Madness doesn’t exist in Kentucky; it’s just Madness because it runs through all 12 months. There are crosstown rivalries like the Cubs and White Sox, Jets vs. Giants, and college football’s Michigan vs. Ohio State, but there is nothing quite like college basketball’s Louisville vs. Kentucky locking horns in March. When […]
Indiana Basketball – Marvin Clark Decides Tomorrow, and Whatever His Choice, You Should Know Him
by Kent Sterling When Jeff Rabjohns of peegs.com tweeted that high school basketball player Marvin Clark will announce his decision tomorrow at 10:30a to attend either Indiana, Kansas State, Michigan State, or Seton Hall, my first question was, “Who is Marvin Clark?” I found the measurements, standard bio, and a couple of highlight videos that showed […]
by Kent Sterling Two products people consume that I can’t figure out – Cubs tickets and catfish stories. One of those is self-explanatory. The Cubs aren’t in a big enough hurry to become competitive to warrant their subsidy through ticket sales. If Javier Baez is better than Donnie Murphy or Darwin Barney (and he is […]
by Kent Sterling The show is a little later today (1p-3:20p) on 1070 the Fan and 107.5 FM, but that just means the show will be better for the extra two hours of preparation, and it wasn’t wasted. Pacers basketball – the way we enjoyed it for the first half of the season was back […]
by Kent Sterling If the Duke program were run by anyone but Mike Krzyzewski, students and alums would storm Cameron Indoor Stadium to remove him by force after dumping first round NCAA games to Lehigh and Mercer in two of the last three years. Quaint Mercer, the 14-seed who dared to believe, finished the job […]
by Kent Sterling That clicking sound is the NCAA Men’s Tournament Selection Committee texting each other to congratulate themselves for setting up this tournament. My God, what a day of basketball. Sixteen games, and four end in overtime while Dayton, Harvard, and Texas won games that went down to the wire. Click here to follow […]
by Kent Sterling I tweeted during the Texas Southern play-in loss that coach former Hoosiers coach and current Texas Southern leader Mike Davis is to basketball coaches as Jimmy Carter is to U.S. presidents. For the next hour, people offered additional parallels, and thus the birth of this post. Leaders come in all shapes, sizes, […]
by Kent Sterling College basketball won’t be the same without Aaron Craft. Love him or hate him, during his four seasons of being a defensive pest for Thad Matta’s Ohio State Buckeyes, he left a deep impression. The way the Buckeyes bowed out to Dayton was kind of fitting in that the game was in […]
by Kent Sterling The Indiana Pacers have 14 games left in what fans hope will end in June with the franchise’s first NBA Championship, and while that is still a possibility, with every game since January 20th it has looked less likely. That was the date the Pacers last played a game where they appeared […]
