...to Alabama St.
...to Alabama St.
Tough road to hoe down there. Who was the last MU coach to have greater success after leaving? Rick?
Creans Big 10 record at IU is 49-77. Overall record is 122-111 there.
Yeah, but that includes a couple of seasons where the team was terrible. I forget how many games the team won the first year he was there, but it was in single digits. I think they were winless in the Big Ten. His second year was not much better, as the players he recruited were freshmen. At Marquette, he did not take over a great team, but he took over a team, with some talent. At Ix4, he was begging for walk-ons his first year. He barely had enough players to field a team.
Depends on what you consider doing better. Someone posted his record at Ix4. I suggest that this is deceptive and it makes more sense to look at his record after his first two years, when he had to rebuild the team from scratch. He has gotten good recruits, lead his team to the NCAA tournament regularly, and got them ranked #1. One could argue that he indeed has done better at Ix4 than he did at Marquette.
You can judge for yourself. He has had 2 seasons over .500 in conference at IU. Has made 3 NCAA tourneys in 7 years. No NITS. If you take away his first 2 seasons at both schools I still don't think you could say he has been more successful at IU.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Crean_(basketball)
I did say similar success. In the past 4 years, he has gone 93-45 (41-31) with three NCAA appearances and two Sweet 16s. His NCAA record at IU is 4-3, at Marquette it was 5-5. Crean has done about as well at IU as he did here, and I'd argue he's one successful season from exceeding his accomplishments here. Even without a Final Four appearance. I know Crean is much beleaguered by our fanbase and isn't always the favorite even at IU, but he's done pretty well down there, especially considering the situation he walked in to.