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Crean's first big challenge with Hoosiers is academics
Crean's first big challenge with Hoosiers is academics
Tom Crean isn't worried about wins, losses or even rosters right now.
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Academic woes still creeping around
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL. — ... and the USA Today threw down stories yesterday about IU’s academic woes. We all know the gist by now: first semester the basketball team rocked it out in the classroom — if you want to call a 2.89 cumulative GPA good, that is — but second semester was sort of brutal. Perhaps it had some to do with the Kelvin Sampson debacle, perhaps the kids just got lazy. Whatever the reasons may be, Tom Crean has indicated that a good lot of players are fighting an uphill battle at the end of the semester here to get their grades in line. ...

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