Our Man Booker Award-winning coaching profile series rolls on with Tom Crean.
Until about two weeks ago, Crean was the coach of Indiana, where he ran the storied Hoosier basketball program after previously serving as the head coach at Marquette. In Milwaukee, Crean took over a team that had slipped into mediocrity and guided the Golden Eagles (or whatever they were at the time) to five NCAA tournaments in nine seasons. Most famously, Crean coached Marquette, led by future Heatle Dwyane Wade, to the 2003 Final Four. Also notably, Crean’s teams didn’t suffer any slip after moving from Conference USA to the Big East, where the Golden Eagles averaged 23 wins per season, and a .