Tom Crean
	Position: Head Coach Experience: 5th Year Alma Mater: Central Michigan '89

Tom Crean Bio

• Hired in April, 2008 and has rebuilt one of the nation's most storied college basketball programs from scratch as the Hoosiers finished the year ranked 13th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.

• IU has been picked as the #1 team in the country in several 2012-13 preseason polls including USA Today, NBCSports.com, ESPN.com, Yahoo. com, and CNNSI.com.

• This past season, he guided IU to its sixth winningest season in school history with a 27-9 mark and a berth in the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16.

• Named National Coach of the Year by ESPN.com and Big Ten Coach of the Year by The Sporting News.

• Led IU to a No. 7 and No. 8 national ranking in his fourth season and guided the Hoosiers to wins over the No. 1 (Kentucky), No. 2 (Ohio State) and No. 5 (Michigan State) teams this season, the first IU team to ever do so in the regular season. IU was ranked 16th and 17th in the final regular season polls.

• Led IU to the largest turnaround among major college conferences with a 15 1/2 game improvement, tying for the best in Big Ten history.

• In the win over Kentucky, junior Christian Watford's game winning three-pointer was named Geico National Play of the Year.

• Saw freshman Cody Zeller earn AP All-American honors and had Watford earn All-South Region accolades at the NCAA Tournament. Zeller also earned All-District awards from the NABC and USBWA and was a second team All-Big Ten choice.

• Zeller was a finalist for the Waymon Tisdale Award (Freshman of the Year) and a nominee for the Wooden Award and the Oscar Robertson Award.

• Watford, junior Jordan Hulls and sophomore Victor Oladipo earned honorable mention All-Big Ten honors and Oladipo was a member of the All-Defensive team.

• Saw IU lead the Big Ten in scoring, three-point field goal shooting, field goal percentage and finish second in free throw percentage. The Hoosiers were second in the nation in three-point percentage, fifth in overall shooting and 11th from the line.

• In 13 years as a head coach, he has seen all 39 seniors earn degrees, and had Matt Roth graduate from IU in three years and Tom Pritchard in 3 1/2.

• Since coming to Indiana, he and his staff recruited one of the top 10 classes in the country for 2009, a top 15 class in 2011, and the No. 2 class in 2012.

• Averaged over 20 wins a season in nine years at Marquette and led the Golden Eagles to five NCAA Tournament appearances, including the 2003 Final Four.

• Over his final seven seasons at Marquette, he compiled an aggregate record of 160-68 (.702).

• He is a two-time recipient of the Ray Meyer Conference USA, NABC District XI and USBWA District V Coach of the Year awards, and in 2003 won the Coach Clair Bee Award as well as being named a finalist for the Naismith National Coach of the Year Award.

• In his nine years with the Golden Eagles, Crean's teams earned five NCAA Tournament bids, one more than the previous four Marquette coaches had in the 16 years prior to his arrival.

• Coached Dwyane Wade to the program's first conference Player of the Year award in 2003. Wade also went on to become the first Marquette player since 1978 to be named an AP first team All-American and finalist for the John Wooden Award.

• Dominic James was a first team all-conference selection in 2006-07 as well, while McNeal was named the conference's Defensive Player of the Year.

• In 2006, Steve Novak was a unanimous first team all-conference selection and went on to be selected by the Houston Rockets in the NBA Draft.

• Travis Diener's was an All-America selection in 2005 and was selected 38th overall by the Orlando Magic in the 2005 Draft and has also played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Indiana Pacers.

• The 2002-03 campaign was one of the finest in Golden Eagle history, as Marquette made a Final Four appearance for the first time since winning the NCAA Championship in 1977.

• MU won 27 games that year, 14 in conference play, thanks in part to the play of Wade in his All-America season. The Golden Eagles finished the regular season ranked No. 9 by the Associated Press and No. 6 in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 poll and their .818 winning percentage was the program's best since 1977-78.

• Prior to his arrival in Milwaukee, Crean served under Tom Izzo on the Michigan State basketball staff for four seasons, holding the position of associate head coach the last two.

• Crean also served as the Spartans' recruiting coordinator, where he routinely lured some of the nation's top talent to East Lansing, including two-time Big Ten Player of the Year Mateen Cleaves and two-time first team All-Big Ten selection Morris Peterson.

• In Crean's four years on Izzo's staff, the Spartans put together an 88-41 record and made four consecutive postseason appearances, including a trip to the 1999 Final Four. In each of Crean's four seasons, MSU's win total increased, culminating with a 33-5 season and a 15-1 Big Ten ledger in 1999.

• Prior to his tenure at Michigan State, Crean spent the 1994-95 season as an assistant coach at Pittsburgh.

• He served as the associate head coach at Western Kentucky from 1990 to 1994, and in each of his final two seasons with the Hilltoppers, WKU earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament, including a Sun Belt Championship and a trip to the Sweet 16.

• Crean got his start in coaching on the Division I level in 1989-90, serving on Jud Heathcote's staff at Michigan State. That team posted a 28-6 record and earned a Sweet 16 trip after winning the Big Ten.

• A native of Mount Pleasant, Crean earned his bachelor's degree in parks and recreation with a minor in psychology from Central Michigan in 1989. While pursuing his degree, Crean coached basketball at Alma College and Mount Pleasant High School.

• Tom and his wife, Joani, are the parents of Megan, 17, Riley, 13, and Ainsley, 7.

• Joani's father, Jack Harbaugh, was a long-time college football coach who won a Division I-AA national championship while coaching at Western Kentucky.

• Her brother, Jim, played quarterback at Michigan and for the Indianapolis Colts and is currently the head football coach for the San Francisco 49ers after spending four years as the head coach at Stanford.

• Another brother, John, is the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. He was an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Eagles from 1998-2006 after joining Cam Cameron's staff at Indiana for the 1997 season as a defensive backs/special teams coach.