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
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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.
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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.
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They've learned that the game comes down to three or four possessions on offense, three or four possessions on defense. We're trying to teach our team all the time that momentum comes down to execution, that we build our breaks by the way we execute.
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We got our second wind under us when we started to make those shots.
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I've never been around a group of guys who sold out for each other in the second half. It was one of the most amazing things I have seen a team do.
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We couldn't have gotten a better look and we couldn't have had a better guy taking the shot.
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We have to make it a defensive game every time we turn around, that's the Big East. You've got to take advantage of your possessions.
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I was proud of the way our guys hung in there and battled back, even though we were unable to finish it off.
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I think rivalries don't just happen anymore. They've got to be created on the floor. I think a couple coaches could get together and manipulate the situation but that would be short-lived. I think what happens on the floor creates the rivalry: a buzzer-beater, a double-overtime game, a couple games down to the wire.
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I think he can poke fun at them and they can poke fun at him. I don't know if it was always like that but he's grown into it; he's learned to trust and respect and they've learned to trust and respect him.
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Louisville played excellent and they played hard. It was a very hard, intense battle, one of the most intense battles I've ever been associated with. They had a couple more big plays than we did at the end.
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Look what Syracuse did; they couldn't have played any worse against DePaul a week ago and they just won four great games. Anything can happen this time of year.
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Maybe 10, but I'm biased. When you go against Seton Hall, you see Cincinnati. When you see these teams on a day-in, day-out basis, you see how good they are.
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You have to incorporate these things into practice. It takes a lot of courage to make free throws, and that?s often what separates really good teams from average teams. You have to make it a point of emphasis.