Making yet another connection with Michigan State Basketball, Indiana Basketball has signed Tom Crean (formerly at Western Kentucky, Pittsburgh and Michigan State) as their new head coach.
Crean has a well known reputation of running an extremely clean basketball program from top to bottom, and has well behaved disciplined players, both items that Indiana has been striving for since the Kelvin Sampson Fiasco.
Do I think this is a good move by IU? Yes.
Am I more worried about them as an opponent now? Yes.
Crean was the one person I wanted to have once Tom Izzo retired. Hopefully, this IU job is just somewhere he can prove himself some more until Tom is ready to hand over the reigns.
In the mean time, expect the gentleman’s agreement between Izzo and Crean of not recruiting the same players to wash away, as the Big Ten is a battle ground.
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