Tom Crean BIG 10 coach of the Year (CTC Appreciation Thread)!!!!!!!

[iceman]

Congratulations Coach !!!!!

[FortWayneHoosier]

Awesome!!!!!! Well deserved!

[HoosierSadaseci]

Whaaaaaaaaat? Seriously?

[JSHoosier]

Congrats Coach Crean.  He deserved it after the turnaround the team showed.

[hoosierfan6157]

Great job coach! Loved the fact that you taught the team the difference between playing FOR Indiana versus playing AT Indiana.

[Alford Bailey]

Well deserved

[ALASKA HOOSIER]

Great Job Coach Crean!

[MartintheMopMan]

Looks like we beat Wisconsin twice after all.

[Brass Cannon]

The team he built this year is very good. And judging by the all forward lineup he played with against Maryland we should be very good next year.

Kind of drooling at the prospect of a

Johnson or Newkirk
Blackmon
OG
Davis
Bryant

Lineup

With Morgan off the bench basically able to do anything.

[mamasa]

Too lazy to look- have we ever had both men's and women's Big Ten Coach of the Year?

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Too lazy to look- have we ever had both men's and women's Big Ten Coach of the Year?

And both undefeated at home?

[Brass Cannon]

And both undefeated at home?

Has anybody ever done that in the Big Ten?

[coonhounds]

I love unexpected surprises and this sure does qualify. Congratulations coach now let's have a couple great tournaments to put some icing on the cake

[Naismith]

Tom Crean talks about how his players adjusted and maneuvered around, often times justified, early season criticism.  Their response to the negativity was to accelerate their own improvement, each personally, and as a group, become a single unit.  Tom Crean has done the same.  He has dovetailed himself with his team and staff and looked within himself to be the best that he can be.  Congratulations!

[ccgeneral]

Too lazy to look- have we ever had both men's and women's Big Ten Coach of the Year?

Nope. The only other iuwbb COY was in '83. Think this is like only the third or fourth time it's happened.

 

And both undefeated at home?

This was the first year for iuwbb.

 

Props to CTC! Great job!

[Whoozhers]

Crean & Crimson has risen to the TOP!
Loss of JBJR, hurt ROJO & Juwan, finding Max, OG.
Masterful really.... Congratulations Coach Crean!
To be candid.... I did NOT feel this way in December but, you deserve this HONOR!

[323SGrant]

CTC gets an A from me for winning an outright BIG regular season title and he and the team need not apologize for their schedule that the media often mentions. Football teams in the BIG West have a much easier schedule every year compared to those in the East, which of course, is where IU resides.

[HoosierTrav]

Ive been one of his harshest critics this season and in season's past. He's responded emphatically. He made changes to his game, in the middle of the season, and this team is locked in. He's well deserving of this award. I'm excited to see how this team plays in March.

[rebelhoosier848891]

Congrats Coach Crean---you pushed all the right buttons the second half of the season.  This has been a season to remember and I hope there are more good memories to be made.

 

Funny how things go---from zero to hero in a few months! Well deserved honor.....

[mdn82]

Well deserved

This. Hard to say anyone else deserves it this year.