It’s not often that Tom Crean tweets in all caps, but the news he just passed along via Twitter needed that distinction: The Restoration job here just took a very large step. MAURICE CREEK HAS BEEN CLEARED BY THE NCAA ...
New Herald-Times IU beat reporter Dustin Dopirak is wasting no time getting himself acclimated to the workings of Hoosier athletics. Dopirak was on hand for Wednesday night’s IU Tailgate Tour stop in Indianapolis with a pen and notepad in hand. ...
Our friend Derek Schultz, sports director at Indianapolis’ XL 950, passed along the audio from an interview with Tom Crean that aired Wednesday afternoon. The Indiana coach talks about the recently released schedule, Dick Vitale, Bawa Muniru/Maurice Creek and the ...
With classes set to start at the end of the month, there are still two noticeable absences from IU’s 2009 recruiting class on campus: Maurice Creek and Bawa Muniru. The details have been a little murky, but it’s believed Creek, ...
Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. + It’s been viva, Las Vegas for Bloomington South basketball team. {The Louisville Courier-Journal} + According to John Calipari’s Twitter page, Tom Crean’s son, Riley, has challenged Calipari’s ...
This is a couple of days old, but Tom Crean was on The Drive on JMV late last week and talked about a variety of topics including recruiting and reality television. You can listen to the complete podcast here. Here’s ...
You are Tom Crean. (Not really, but for this exercise, you’ll be playing the part.) The first July evaluation period has come and gone. As of this writing, your lone commitment for the 2010 recruiting class is David Williams, a ...
A who’s-who of college coaches arrived in Cincinnati Monday for the opening of the July evaluation period at the adidas It Takes 5ive Classic. Among the coaches spotted: Tom Crean and assistants Tim Buckley and Bennie Seltzer; Louisville’s Rick Pitino, ...
The annual Indiana-Kentucky game may be returning to its rightful location: a neutral site. According to comments made by UK coach John Calipari on Monday’s SEC teleconference, the UK coach and Tom Crean have discussed moving the rivalry game back ...
One of the major storylines this summer besides recruiting is the eligibility status of incoming freshmen Maurice Creek and Bawa Muniru. Neither player reported to Bloomington for the second semester of summer school. Creek is believed to be waiting for ...
With the uncertainty of the scholarship situation going forward, it was only a matter of time until the questions started on the availability of grants for future recruiting classes. In Wednesday afternoon’s press conference, Tom Crean was asked about IU’s ...
Indiana coach Tom Crean met the media earlier this afternoon at Assembly Hall. You can listen to the audio of the press conference here or in the embedded media player below. [audio:http://blogs.heraldtimesonline.com/iusp/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ds_206772.mp3] We’ll have more reaction to Crean’s comments later ...
When the update came through via Twitter, the first thought that raced through the minds of Indiana fans was, ‘Is Coach Crean going to bring back Bobby?’ He did, after all, say he wanted to bring every former coach, player ...
Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. + St. Patrick’s guard and IU target Kyrie Irving talks about his recruitment and mentions his relationship with Tom Crean. {Northstar Basketball Blog} + Former Southern Cal recruit ...
Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. + Mark Carlino, J.R. Holmes and Highland (AZ) athletic director Rod Huston talk about the Carlino’s decision to move to Indiana. {The Hoosier Scoop} + Mark Carlino says ...
Tom Crean met with the media early this afternoon and you can read a large portion of the transcript right here. Here are a couple of the more interesting responses he gave, including a very long and detailed answer about ...