Own a piece of Indiana Basketball with this IU Men’s Basketball Head Coach Tom Crean signed ball.

Tom Crean was hired in April 2008 and has rebuilt one of the nation's most storied college basketball programs from scratch as the Hoosiers finished last year ranked 13th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll.  This season, IU has been picked as the #1 team in the country in several 2012-13 preseason polls including USA Today, NBCSports.com, ESPN.com, Yahoo. com, and CNNSI.com.

More of Tom Crean’s accomplishments include:

• This past season, he guided IU to its sixth winningest season in school history with a 27-9 mark and a berth in the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16.

• Named National Coach of the Year by ESPN.com and Big Ten Coach of the Year by The Sporting News.

• Led IU to a No. 7 and No. 8 national ranking in his fourth season and guided the Hoosiers to wins over the No. 1 (Kentucky), No. 2 (Ohio State) and No. 5 (Michigan State) teams last season, the first IU team to ever do so in the regular season. IU was ranked 16th and 17th in the final regular season polls.

• Led IU to the largest turnaround among major college conferences with a 15 1/2 game improvement, tying for the best in Big Ten history.

• Saw freshman Cody Zeller earn AP All-American honors and had Watford earn All-South Region accolades at the NCAA Tournament. Zeller also earned All-District awards from the NABC and USBWA and was a second team All-Big Ten choice.

• Saw IU lead the Big Ten in scoring, three-point field goal shooting, field goal percentage and finish second in free throw percentage. The Hoosiers were second in the nation in three-point percentage, fifth in overall shooting and 11th from the line.

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