Forget the NCAA tournament for just a moment. We still have yet to make it past the semi-finals of a Big Ten Tournament under Tom Crean. How can we win in the big dance if we can’t even prove that we are the best team in our own conference tournament?
Indiana has seen some great teams come and go in the Tom Crean era. Some may be upset that they exited the NCAA tournament too early in 2012 to Syracuse, or last year to North Carolina, but of all of the shortcomings of Crean’s Indiana, their poor performance in Big Ten Tournaments has to be the worst.