Tom Crean rebuilt Indiana basketball from the bottom – and still got dumped | Les Carpenter

It’s been 30 years since the Hoosiers last won a national title, but if you’re not Bob Knight, bringing Indiana back from disaster apparently isn’t enough

What’s the worth of building respectability in college basketball?

Late in the winter of 2012, not long before Indiana would return to the NCAA tournament that had once been their regular domain, I listened as Hoosiers coach Tom Crean told me how bad things had been four years before.

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