How Indiana State basketball’s Josh Schertz rose from ‘anonymity’ to coaching star
New York TimesThe 12-year-old boy held the ball in his left hand as he prepared to serve. “All that time I missed as a kid, I wasn’t able to get it back,” Schertz says. “The alternative is to not care about anyone or love anybody deeply and you don’t experience any pain, but you also don’t get the incredible moments and memories that you experience when you love people.” Last summer Schertz visited Florida Atlantic coach Dusty May, his friend of five years, in Boca Raton. May says his friend is “as good as there is” as a coach, noting his “obsession with learning and growing.” After his first season at LMU in 2009, Schertz spent a week with Bill Self’s Kansas program. Now in his third year at Indiana State, the Sycamores are likely headed for their first NCAA Tournament bid since 2011, and Schertz’s five-out attack is the most efficient half-court offense in college hoops.
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