SEC Tipoff Blog: Men's Basketball

6:50 PM CT: Georgia

It wasn't news to new coach Tom Crean that football's kind of a big deal at Georgia.

"I knew that walking in," Crean said. "I've embraced it."

Crean has a football background of his own. Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh is his brother-in-law. As an assistant to Tom Izzo at Michigan State, Crean admired the relationship between Izzo and football coach Nick Saban.

"I always wanted something like that," Crean said, and he's developing that kind of bond with Kirby Smart.

"But it's more than football," Crean said. "Sports at Georgia is fantastic. There's no reason we can't be successful. I never looked at it as a football school. I looked at it as a fantastic school for…