Just six coaches had won multiple outright Big Ten regular season championships in the last 30 years when Indiana took the floor on Tuesday night in Iowa City.
By the time the final buzzer sounded and the Hoosiers celebrated an 81-78 win at Carver Hawkeye Arena, a seventh name was added: Tom Crean.
With his second outright league title in four years, Crean joined a list that includes arguably the two most successful coaches in league history in Bob Knight and Tom Izzo. He also continued to silence those, including plenty of Indiana fans, who thought this team was done after early season debacles in Maui and at Cameron Indoor Stadium.