Tom Crean
Tom Crean
Thomas Creanis an American college basketball coach. He is currently the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team. Prior to that he served as head coach at Marquette University, where the program averaged 20 wins a year and made six postseason appearances, including the 2003 NCAA Final Four...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 March 1966
building close experience hard help learn mental players teams
Our players are building mental toughness. It's really hard with a young team. It's very hard to close teams out in a close game. The more that you get experience at it and the more you learn from the experience is when you don't do it is where it can really help you.
building everybody freshmen great mental players playing seniors
It's great to see seniors and freshmen and everybody else in between playing well. Our players are building mental toughness.
guys history
For our guys to be a part of history like that was important.
far hit second shot today took weeks win
As far as the end of the game, we got every look that we wanted. Two weeks ago (Novak) hit a shot with a second to go to win the game. Today he took a shot from a different place, and it just didn't go down.
bench depth teams
It's the depth of the league. Teams can go to their bench and there's no drop-off. It's really impressive.
attacked energy fierce played second
I think the way he attacked and the way he went to the rim, especially in the second half, he played with just a fierce energy which was really good.
guys
I never underestimate our young guys and what their abilities are.
colin deal defending focus great job today
This was a big deal to him. I think his focus today was Colin Falls, and he did a great job in defending him.
gotten guy taking
We couldn't have gotten a better look and we couldn't have had a better guy taking the shot.
high low move next
You can't be too high when you win, you can't be too low when you lose. You've got to move on to the next thing.
adage beat great team trying
When you've got a team like that that's just trying to get to New York, it's a great league. The old adage that we beat up our own, that's what everyone has to take into account.
ball create guys handle pass shoot sign
We still need to sign guys. We have workable depth, but we need more. The more guys you have that can handle the ball -- pass and shoot and create -- the better for everyone.
best february games help hopefully meaningful ranks wins
This ranks as one of the best wins this season. The more meaningful games we win in February will hopefully help us play more meaningful games in March.
game great individual practices ready start sure talking trying turn
We're just trying to make sure we keep having great practices and a lot of energy, get ready for each individual game and if it happens, it happens. We know it doesn't get any easier. To start talking about a bye could turn into a distraction for these guys.