Tom Crean (basketball coach)
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
| Born |
March 25, 1966 Mount Pleasant, Michigan |
| Alma mater | Central Michigan |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1987–1989 | Alma (asst.) |
| 1989–1990 | Michigan State (grad. asst.) |
| 1990–1994 | Western Kentucky (asst.) |
| 1994–1995 | Pittsburgh (asst.) |
| 1995–1999 | Michigan State (asst.) |
| 1999–2008 | Marquette |
| 2008–2017 | Indiana |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 356–231 (.606) |
| Tournaments | (NCAA): 11–8 (NIT) 2–3 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
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NCAA Regional – Final Four (2003) C-USA regular season championship (2003) 2× Big Ten regular season championships (2013, 2016) |
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| Awards | |
| 2× C-USA Coach of the Year (2002, 2003) Clair Bee Coach of the Year (2003) Big Ten Coach of the Year (2016) |
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Thomas Aaron Crean (born March 25, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team. Prior to that, he served as head coach at Marquette University (1999–2008), where the program averaged 20 wins a year and made six postseason appearances, including the 2003 NCAA Final Four.
Crean's basketball philosophy emphasizes fast breaks, transition offense, and defensive pressure. His guidance of the Indiana program to success from "unthinkable depths" was regarded as one of the most remarkable rebuilding projects in NCAA basketball history. In 2012, he was named the mid-season Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year, the Sporting News Big Ten Coach of the Year, and the ESPN.com National Coach of the Year. In 2016, Crean was named by the coaches and media the Big Ten Coach of the Year after coaching Indiana to their second outright Big Ten regular-season championship in four years.
Crean was born and raised in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where he played basketball for four years. According to Crean, "I didn't play a lot, although my coach called me his biggest tool, but I knew I wanted to coach." While a student at Central Michigan University, Crean was an assistant coach at Mount Pleasant High School for five seasons, and at Alma College. Crean received his bachelor's degree in parks-and-recreation studies from Central Michigan in 1989. Crean is married to Joani Harbaugh, whom he met while an assistant to Ralph Willard at Western Kentucky University (WKU) through a mutual friend, Ron Burns, at a gym where she was working as an aerobics instructor. Her father, Jack Harbaugh, was the head football coach at WKU at the time Crean was an assistant basketball coach there. She is also the sister of the first pair of brothers in NFL history to serve as head coaches: Baltimore Ravens head football coach John Harbaugh and former San Francisco 49ers head football coach and current University of Michigan Wolverines head football coach Jim Harbaugh. Crean and his wife have three children: Megan, Riley, and Ainsley. Crean says he is a Christian.
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