Notes and quotes from Tom Crean’s press conference

As Indiana prepares for its first practice Friday, Tom Crean met with the media Thursday afternoon at Cook Hall to provide updates on a variety of topics.

You can watch the full video of Crean’s comments here, but we’ve also transcribed some of his more notable comments below:

· Opening statement: “Obviously we start practice tomorrow and it’s an exciting weekend at Indiana with everything that’s going on with the football team and the fact that Ohio State comes in. And we’re equally as excited because we get to start official practice. We’ll start tomorrow morning. We’ll go twice tomorrow, we’ll go on Saturday and then everybody will have time to go to the game and do all of that. With the…