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College Basketball's Top 25 Coaches

In an effort to talk about something college basketball-related other than scandals in the summer, let's talk best current coaches. We'll attempt to order the top 25 current coaches in the nation. This is about the present and the future, not the distant past. What a guy did in the mid-90s doesn't matter near as much as...

Nation's Best Coaching in Big Ten

In 2008, the Big Ten sent only four teams to the NCAA tournament. None reached the Elite Eight The Big Ten toiled down with mid-majors in conference RPI and were nationally maligned as the "Average 11." This past season, however, the league enjoyed a resurgence. It ranked only behind the ACC in conference RPI. Seven...

Worst Ever Indiana Season Quietly Ends

As the buzzer sounded in Conseco Fieldhouse early Thursday evening, the Indiana Hoosiers had lost to Penn State by a count of 66 to 51. Tom Crean's first season as head basketball coach had mercifully concluded. The Hoosiers will miss the NCAA Tournament for only the third time since A Season on the Brink was published....

Big Ten Update: Penn State Is Cooked, But Badgers Are Back

A few weeks ago I did a halfway point roundup for the Big Ten, in which I buried Wisconsin and hailed Penn State to no end. Boy, do I look like an idiot now. Since then, Penn State crumbled, while Wisconsin has done a 180. The Nittany Lions were embarrassed by Michigan, lost at home to Wisconsin, and handily lost at...

Tom Crean Was Excited Last Night

Tom Crean won his first Big Ten conference game Wednesday night (It's a Swingers moment, "Our little baby is all growsed up") and, understandably, the guy was a little excited. Although, perhaps tackling the leader of Indiana's band was a bit much, no? Seriously though, while I want to criticize him for being overly...

TomCrean News From the Web

05/30/12 IU's Crean will highlight Raising the Bar event June 21 Source: The News and Tribune - Jeffersonville IN The GCCS Educational Foundation will host Coaches Raising the Bar for Kids on June 21.
05/24/12 Heat pays price for hard fouls Source: The Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne IN The NBA deemed otherwise, and the Miami Heat will be without one of their co-captains when they try to close out the Indiana Pacers tonight.
05/23/12 IU Tailgating Tour Stops in Fort Wayne Source: ABC/NBC/CW/MyNetwork - Indiana's NewsCenter - Fort Wayne IN The IU Tailgating Tour making its third stop of the spring in Fort Wayne on Tuesday night.
05/22/12 MSNBC: CBT: 4 Indiana schools extend Crossroads Classic Source: The Mid-Majority In a region as steeped in basketball tradition as Indiana, it doesn't get much better than the state's four best programs taking part in a intrastate double-header.
05/17/12 IU sports chat: Stanford Robinson, new IU baseball... Source: The Herald-Times - Bloomington IN MODERATOR: Good morning, and welcome to our weekly IU sports chat with Jeremy and Dustin.