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Message: [QUOTE="Matt1010, post: 2622214, member: 3361"] Crean gets a completely unjustified bad rap. Overall he did a great job with Marquette. The 02-03 final four season with Wade was one of the best in program history. He also went 69-31 upon entering the Big East (making the tournament all 3 years). He then inherited a TERRIBLE situation at IU and turned it into back to back sweet sixteens appearances by years 4 and 5. Once he got the program back on its feet they made 4/6 tournaments before he was fired, and had very good teams in 3/6 of those years finishing Kenpom #9, #3 and #11. You can argue that those teams underperformed in the NCAA tournament, but they lost to national champion UK (Kenpom #1), final four Cuse (Kenpom #9) and runner up UNC (Kenpom #2). Sure it would have been nice if those teams went further but it's tough to be so critical on a 3 game sample. It's not like he was getting upset by double digit cinderella stories. He's also a proven recruiter who has brought in multiple 5* players. Outside of people thinking he's a weird guy what's not to like... [/QUOTE]