Tom Crean
	Position: Head Coach Experience: 4th Year Year Alma Mater: Central Michigan '89

Updated Bio

• Named 28th Men's Basketball Coach at Indiana on April 2, 2008 and begins his fourth season with the Hoosiers.

• Averaged over 20 wins a season in nine years at Marquette and led the Golden Eagles to five NCAA Tournament appearances, including the 2003 Final Four.

• In 12 years as a head coach on the collegiate level, he is 218-162 and has seen all 36 of the seniors who have played for him earn college degrees, and had Matt Roth graduate from IU in three years.

• Since coming to Indiana, he and his staff recruited one of the top 10 classes in the country for 2009 and a top 15 class in 2011

• During the 2010-11 season, IU posted its first top 25 wins during the Crean era with home victories over Illinois and Minnesota.

• Following the 2009-10 season, Verdell Jones III develop into an All-Big Ten performer and saw Christian Watford named Big Ten Freshman of the Year by Sporting News and FoxSports.com.

• Over his final seven seasons at Marquette, he compiled an aggregate record of 160-68 (.702). He is a two-time recipient of the Ray Meyer Conference USA, NABC District XI and USBWA District V Coach of the Year awards, and in 2003 won the Coach Clair Bee Award as well as being named a finalist for the Naismith National Coach of the Year Award.

• In his nine years with the Golden Eagles, Crean's teams earned five NCAA Tournament bids, one more than the previous four Marquette coaches had in the 16 years prior to his arrival.

• Coached Dwyane Wade to the program's first conference Player of the Year award in 2003. Wade also went on to become the first Marquette player since 1978 to be named an AP first team All-American and finalist for the John R. Wooden Award.

• Dominic James was a first team all-conference selection in 2006-07 as well, while McNeal was named the conference's Defensive Player of the Year.

• In 2006, Steve Novak was a unanimous first team all-conference selection and went on to be selected by the Houston Rockets in the NBA Draft.

• Travis Diener's was an All-America selection in 2005 and was selected 38th overall by the Orlando Magic in the 2005 Draft and has also played for the Portland Trail Blazers and Indiana Pacers.

• The 2002-03 campaign was one of the finest in Golden Eagle history, as Marquette made a Final Four appearance for the first time since winning the NCAA Championship in 1977.

• MU won 27 games that year, 14 in conference play, thanks in part to the play of Wade in his All-America season. The Golden Eagles finished the regular season ranked No. 9 by the Associated Press and No. 6 in the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 poll and their .818 winning percentage was the program's best since 1977-78.

• Prior to his arrival in Milwaukee, Crean served under Tom Izzo on the Michigan State basketball staff for four seasons, holding the position of associate head coach the last two.

• Crean also served as the Spartans' recruiting coordinator, where he routinely lured some of the nation's top talent to East Lansing, including two-time Big Ten Player of the Year Mateen Cleaves and two-time first team All-Big Ten selection Morris Peterson.

• In Crean's four years on Izzo's staff, the Spartans put together an 88-41 record and made four consecutive postseason appearances, including a trip to the 1999 Final Four. In each of Crean's four seasons, MSU's win total increased, culminating with a 33-5 season and a 15-1 Big Ten ledger in 1999.

• Prior to his tenure at Michigan State, Crean spent the 1994-95 season as an assistant coach at Pittsburgh.

• He served as the associate head coach at Western Kentucky from 1990 to 1994, and in each of his final two seasons with the Hilltoppers, WKU earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament, including a Sun Belt Championship and a trip to the Sweet 16.

• Crean got his start in coaching on the Division I level in 1989-90, serving on Jud Heathcote's staff at Michigan State. That team posted a 28-6 record and earned a Sweet 16 trip after winning the Big Ten.

• A native of Mount Pleasant, Crean earned his bachelor's degree in parks and recreation with a minor in psychology from Central Michigan in 1989. While pursuing his degree, Crean coached basketball at Alma College and Mount Pleasant High School.

• Tom and his wife, Joani, are the parents of Megan, 16, Riley, 12, and Ainsley, 6.

• Joani's father, Jack Harbaugh, was a long-time college football coach who won a Division I-AA national championship while coaching at Western Kentucky.

• Her brother, Jim, played quarterback at Michigan and for the Indianapolis Colts and is currently the head football coach for the San Francisco 49ers after spending the previous four years as the head coach at Stanford.

• Another brother, John, is in his second year as the head coach of the Baltimore Ravens. He was an assistant coach with the Philadelphia Eagles from 1998-2006 after joining Cam Cameron's staff at Indiana for the 1997 season as a defensive backs/special teams coach.