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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Joe has worked so hard on his shooting, as has Dan, and we feel like it's going in when they get the ball. We are very confident with those guys on the floor. It makes a lot of difference for us to be able to play five guards and not have any drop-off when you go to the bench.
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This was an unbelievable conference win. This is a special night in the program's history. We beat a premier program in our first game in the Big East.
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This was a big deal to him. I think his focus today was Colin Falls, and he did a great job in defending him.
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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.
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We got our second wind under us when we started to make those shots.
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You can't be too high when you win, you can't be too low when you lose. You've got to move on to the next thing.
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To start us out with one of the most storied college basketball programs of the last 15 years, I guess that?s good. My players would see right through me if I told them it was just another game.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.