Crean to Indiana

Tom Crean has been named the new head basketball coach at Indiana University. This is the third coaching change since the firing of Bobby Knight in 2000. Crean was hired as the head basketball coach at Marquette on March 30, 1999. Marquette was Crean's first head coaching job and since arriving in Milwaukee, he has compiled a record of 188-94.

NCAA Violations for Indiana Basketball

For all the notoriety that Bobby Knight brought to Indiana, granted not all of it was good; I imagine that the University would rather be celebrating a coach with over 900 wins than agonizing over the recent NCAA violations brought on by current coach Kelvin Sampson. Sampson is accused of committing five major NCAA violations. This is the first time that there have been any violations in the Indiana Basketball program since 1960. It is not surprising to me that the head of the program during most of that time was Bobby Knight.