Tom Crean Archive

Around the Hall: March 3, 2009

  • Alex Bozich Mar 3, 2009 3
 

Around the Hall is recommended reading from the Inside the Hall crew. + Senior night is players’ final chance to bid farewell {Indiana Daily Student} + Zach Osterman breaks down the improvement Kyle Taber has shown during his senior season ...

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Tom Crean Big Ten teleconference audio

  • Alex Bozich Mar 2, 2009 3
 

Update: Crean also talked to the media this afternoon about the Michigan State game. Here is the audio of Tom Crean’s appearance on the weekly Big Ten coaches teleconference, courtesy of the Big Ten Network: Related: Tom Izzo teleconference audio ...

‘This was bound to happen at some point’

  • Alex Bozich Feb 26, 2009 3
 

Notes written shortly after Michael Santa’s much anticipated IU debut … “I’ll never accept it and I never have, but this was bound to happen at some point with this team. We’ve asked a lot of them. A majority of ...

I should really be asleep right now, but I just checked my e-mail on my phone quick and Jerod over at Midwest Sports Fan dropped this in my inbox: the Indy Star is reporting the basketball staff made one phone ...

Tom Crean and the Indiana Hoosiers (most of them, anyway) got their first taste of the IU-Purdue rivalry Saturday afternoon in Mackey Arena. And despite a spirit and toughness Crean felt his team exhibited throughout the contest, the Hoosiers dropped ...

Crean and the Hoosiers ready for Purdue

  • Alex Bozich Feb 21, 2009 3
 

… And here’s the audio of Crean’s press conference from Friday afternoon, courtesy of The Hoosier Scoop: [audio:crean022009.mp3]

In case you haven’t checked the schedule, IU has just about 24 hours until it’s next game — a big one in West Lafayette. And I’m not the only one who thinks the bizarre timing of the game needs to ...

Crean tight lipped after fourth straight loss

  • Alex Bozich Feb 20, 2009 3
 

The frustration of a 19-loss (and counting) season might finally be getting to Tom Crean. Our friends over at The Palestra have the story detailing Crean’s shorter than usual press conference after last night’s loss:

Dumes will return for Wisconsin game

  • Alex Bozich Feb 18, 2009 3
 

The indefinite suspension is over. Turns out, it really wasn’t all that indefinite after all. After sitting out two games for throwing elbows in a couple of different games, most notably against Michigan State, Devan Dumes will return for Thursday’s ...

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Open thread: Will IU win again this season?

  • Alex Bozich Feb 18, 2009 3
 

It’s been a good start to the week here at ITH: Ryan’s rebuttal of the totally off-base Deadspin piece, Bawa Muniru chatter, Dominique Keller’s apparent hatred for IU and continuation of the EJ media tour. With another off day for ...

Let me tell you about my morning. I got up late. I put on clothes I wore out to a bar Friday night. I took a cab to work. I wrote some blogs posts for the day job. Typical Monday. ...

Tom Crean’s pregame speech against Illinois

  • Alex Bozich Feb 15, 2009 3
 

… So it didn’t exactly work out as he’d hoped (at least as of halftime), but it’s worth listening to if you didn’t get a chance to hear it. Even in the midst of a blowout, it’s things like this ...

Since the day Tom Crean arrived on campus in Bloomington last April, he’s said all of the right things. After inheriting a situation that quickly turned far more sour than anyone could have ever imagined, Crean still managed to give ...

Crean and Dumes discuss the evil elbows

  • Eamonn Brennan Feb 10, 2009 3
 

Tom Crean made Devan Dumes face the media briefly yesterday — part of the new “face the music” ethos at Assembly Hall — and the audio of their Q&A session is available via The Hoosier Scoop here. One observation: Yes, ...

Tom Crean Big Ten teleconference audio

  • Alex Bozich Feb 9, 2009 3
 

Here is the audio of Tom Crean’s appearance on the weekly Big Ten coaches teleconference, courtesy of the Big Ten Network: Related: Tom Izzo teleconference audio Bruce Weber teleconference audio

Devan Dumes suspended indefinitely

  • Alex Bozich Feb 8, 2009 3
 

IU media relations sent along the following earlier this evening: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Indiana University men’s basketball coach Tom Crean has suspended indefinitely junior guard Devan Dumes for his actions during Saturday’s game at Michigan State. “After coming home and ...