Tom Crean (basketball)
Crean in 2012 | |
| Biographical details | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 25, 1966 Mount Pleasant, Michigan, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Central Michigan ('89) |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1987–1989 | Alma (assistant) |
| 1989–1990 | Michigan State (GA) |
| 1990–1994 | Western Kentucky (assistant) |
| 1994–1995 | Pittsburgh (assistant) |
| 1995–1999 | Michigan State (assistant) |
| 1999–2008 | Marquette |
| 2008–2017 | Indiana |
| 2018–2022 | Georgia |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 403–306 (.568) |
| Tournaments | 11–9 (NCAA Division I) 2–3 (NIT) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| NCAA Division I Regional – Final Four (2003) C-USA regular season (2003) 2 Big Ten regular season (2013, 2016) | |
| Awards | |
| Clair Bee Coach of the Year (2003) 2× C-USA Coach of the Year (2002, 2003) Big Ten Coach of the Year (2016) | |
Thomas Aaron Crean (born March 25, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and sportscaster. Most recently, he was the head coach for the University of Georgia men's basketball team. Crean was previously the head coach of Indiana University. Prior to that, he served as head coach at Marquette University (1999–2008), where his team reached the 2003 NCAA Final Four. Crean currently works as an analyst for college basketball coverage on both ESPN and NBC Sports, working in both a color commentator role and a studio analyst contributing to halftime and between-games coverage. He has also worked as a color commentator in the NBA Summer League in 2025, also for ESPN.
Crean's basketball philosophy emphasizes fast breaks and transition offense. His guidance of the Indiana program to success from "unthinkable depths" was regarded as one of the most remarkable rebuilding projects in NCAA basketball history. In 2012, he was named the mid-season Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year, the Sporting News Big Ten Coach of the Year, and the ESPN.com National Coach of the Year. In 2016, Crean was named by the coaches and media the Big Ten Coach of the Year after coaching Indiana to their second outright Big Ten regular-season championship in four years.