Survey says: IU 13th on list of programs to buy

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

I woke up this morning to an interesting exercise performed by longtime Courier-Journal columnist Rick Bozich. The question posed to 30 knowledgeable college basketball minds was as follows: “If you were buying stock in 10 college basketball programs, which 10 would you buy and in what order?”
Some of the names of those who participated (and [...]

A drop in the cap for Bruce Pearl

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

We’re already hearing things about the coaching search — Kevin Stallings this, Scott Skiles that — so it’s probably appropriate to make a note of Pat Forde’s story today about Bruce Pearl. It’s a lot of stuff most of you probably already know. For example, Pearl’s fiasco at Iowa, when he turned rival Illinois in [...]

Q and A: ESPN’s Pat Forde

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

We spend plenty of time discussing IU basketball here, but there’s a whole world of hoops just beyond these borders. To help us get a national perspective — as well as discuss media and, OK, the Hoosiers too — we exchanged some lighthearted and interesting emails with ESPN.com’s Pat Forde.
Forde is one of ESPN.com’s [...]