Tom Crean was fired after nine seasons in Bloomington on Thursday afternoon. The move was announced just as the 2017 NCAA tournament was getting into full swing.
Here’s a look at five takeaways from the Crean era at Indiana:
· The results were too inconsistent: Tom Crean brought Indiana back into the national conversation by winning two outright Big Ten titles in the last five seasons.
But Crean didn’t win consistently enough.
In 2012-13, Indiana won the outright Big Ten title, earned a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen.