Tom Crean
Tom Crean
Thomas Creanis an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team. Prior to that he served as head coach at Marquette University, where the program averaged 20 wins a year and made six postseason appearances, including the 2003 NCAA Final Four...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 March 1966
credit game goes good grabbing great holding keeping open plan played steve
They had a good game plan of grabbing and holding and keeping Steve from getting open looks. The credit goes to them. They played a great game.
bench depth teams
It's the depth of the league. Teams can go to their bench and there's no drop-off. It's really impressive.
everybody moving program special team tone
It was something special to see that team grow. I think the tone of our program was already moving forward, but that kind of put it out there for everybody to see.
ball create guys handle pass shoot sign
We still need to sign guys. We have workable depth, but we need more. The more guys you have that can handle the ball -- pass and shoot and create -- the better for everyone.
adage beat great team trying
When you've got a team like that that's just trying to get to New York, it's a great league. The old adage that we beat up our own, that's what everyone has to take into account.
guys
I never underestimate our young guys and what their abilities are.
certainly create foul last liked
In the last 4:19 we scored one point. We didn't create contact. We certainly would have liked to go to the foul line, but we didn't create the contact.
hold man spot ton
He understands positioning, he can hold his spot in the post. He may not get a ton of rebounds, but he can keep his man from getting rebounds.
certain chance confidence expertise gain hard improve improving situations skills worker
He's comfortable down there; he's improving all the time. The big things now are to improve his balance, his footwork, his skills and confidence down low. But he's a hard worker and when you work that hard you have a chance to really gain expertise in certain situations that much faster.
game great individual practices ready start sure talking trying turn
We're just trying to make sure we keep having great practices and a lot of energy, get ready for each individual game and if it happens, it happens. We know it doesn't get any easier. To start talking about a bye could turn into a distraction for these guys.
best february games help hopefully meaningful ranks wins
This ranks as one of the best wins this season. The more meaningful games we win in February will hopefully help us play more meaningful games in March.
building close experience hard help learn mental players teams
Our players are building mental toughness. It's really hard with a young team. It's very hard to close teams out in a close game. The more that you get experience at it and the more you learn from the experience is when you don't do it is where it can really help you.
crowd fans home huge seen
Our fans have been fantastic. Our home crowd is huge to us and we haven't seen it in a while.
honest learned team
I thought our team learned something over the (Rutgers loss). They have learned to be honest when they don't play up to their standards.