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Two SEC basketball coaches were fired this week, and John Calipari thinks he knows the biggest reason why both men lost their jobs. Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats beat Vanderbilt 77-71 in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament at Amalie Arena in …
The Georgia Bulldogs will be in the hunt for a new head coach after parting ways with Tom Crean on Thursday. Crean is out as Georgia coach, as first reported by Seth Emerson of The Athletic. The news comes after the Bulldogs capped off a 6-26 season …
The Georgia Bulldogs took the unusual step of responding to speculation about coach Tom Crean’s job security on Saturday morning. On Friday night, Dawg Sports reported that the school was considering firing Crean for cause following a reported …
The Georgia Bulldogs are not a college basketball powerhouse, but one of the country’s best recruits has decided to play for them anyway. Anthony Edwards, a five-star recruit considered a consensus top-five member of the 2019 class, decided to …
Tom Crean is having a rough first season as the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs — so rough, in fact, that he essentially threw his entire roster under the bus on Saturday. Crean blamed himself for Georgia’s predicament after an 80-64 …
Tom Crean is heading to the SEC. Crean finalized a six-year deal with Georgia that will pay him $3.2 million per season. The Bulldogs had a vacancy after firing Mark Fox, who struggled to live up to expectations in his nine seasons on the job. Crean …
Tom Crean seems destined to be back in the game sooner rather than later. Jeff Borzello of ESPN reported on Wednesday that Crean met with the University of Pittsburgh this week to discuss their head coaching vacancy. The 51-year-old Crean, who has …
Tom Crean’s absence from the college basketball coaching ranks may only last a year. According to Gary Parrish of CBS Sports, Crean is likely to be a candidate for the Georgia job vacated by the fired Mark Fox. It would be Crean’s first …
The Louisville Cardinals are moving closer to naming an interim head coach, but it reportedly will not be Tom Crean. The former Marquette and Indiana coach reportedly was not in the mix for the Louisville position. I have been told that Tom Crean …
The Louisville Cardinals need an interim basketball coach just days before practices are to begin for the 2017-18 season, and they may be looking at an established name on such short notice. ESPN’s Lisa Kerney reported Wednesday that former …
Jim Boeheim on Thursday ripped former Indiana coach Tom Crean for his draft-night criticism of one of Boeheim’s former Syracuse players. Orange forward Tyler Lydon was taken in the first round by the Denver Nuggets, No. 24 overall. Crean, who …
It didn’t take long for the recently fired Tom Crean to hear from another school regarding its head coaching position. Last week, Crean was relieved of his duties by Indiana, where he had been since 2008. After going 27-8 last season, and …
Tom Crean has been fired as the head coach of Indiana’s men’s basketball team after nine years with the program. The school made the announcement almost immediately after the tip-off of the second round of the 2017 NCAA Tournament on …
Tom Crean heard it from a heckling fan after Indiana’s Big Ten Tournament game against Wisconsin on Friday. Indiana lost to the Badgers 70-60 in the quarterfinals of the tournament, which places them at 18-15, shutting the door on any NCAA …
Tom Crean was not at all happy with a showboat attempt by two of his players in the closing seconds of Sunday’s victory over Rutgers. With Indiana up by 19 and less than ten seconds remaining in regulation, Devonte Green threw an alley-oop to …
These photos might just break your heart. Indiana had an excellent season as they won the Big Ten championship and advanced to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament, but they ran into a hot North Carolina team which beat them 101-86 on Friday night in …
