According to Titus, there is a story floating around Indiana’s campus that Crean asked his managers to go out and buy a live bat for a pregame pep talk. When the managers told him that is impossible, Crean wanted them to go bat-hunting through someone’s attic.
From today’s Pardon My Take with our friends Big Cat and PMT:
At one point Crean wanted to get a live bat for — a live, like, animal bat — for a pregame pep talk and he told the managers, ‘Go find me a bat.’ So the managers try to go find a bat and they realize — you can’t buy a bat and owning a pet bat in Indiana is illegal, so they tell him this and his response is, ‘Well do you guys know anyone with a bat flying around their attic you could catch?