CMU grad Tom Crean accepts head basketball coaching position at Georgia
Mount Pleasant native and CMU graduate Tom Crean accepted the head coaching position with the Georgia Bulldogs' men's basketball team, the school announced March 15.
Crean signed a six-year deal with Georgia, ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski reported.
Crean has an overall record of 356-231(.606) as a head coach.
Crean spent this season with ESPN as a college basketball analyst. This is similar to CMU men's basketball head coach Keno Davis' short-lived broadcasting career in between coaching jobs with the Big Ten Network.
Formerly, Crean was the head coach at Marquette and Indiana. At Marquette, Crean coached Dwayne Wade and company to a 27-6 record. Over his career, Crean has coached many college and NBA stars including Wade, Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller.
Crean accepted the job after former Georgia coach Mark Fox was fired March 10. ESPN's Jeff Goodman was the first to report the coaching change.
Fox was the head coach at Georgia for nine seasons, and only made the NCAA Tournament twice.
Crean's opening statement at his introductory press conference March 16 was 27 minutes long. He called the Georgia job an "honor" and expressed the potential of a Southeastern Conference basketball team.
"The power in this conference, and the way they have tried to make this something that has a real strong basketball footprint, I have a real feel for how powerful this is on a national level," Crean said.
