Tom Crean

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tom Crean
Occupation	Basketball Coach
Date Of Birth	Mar 25, 1966(1966-03-25)
Age	58
Birthplace	Annascaul
Country	Ireland
Birth City	County Kerry
Horoscope	Pisces

Tom Crean Biography

Tom Crean is one of the most popular and richest Basketball Coach who was born on March 25, 1966 in Annascaul, County Kerry, Ireland. Basketball coach who guided his team of Indiana Hoosiers to a number-one overall ranking in 2013.

He had previously worked with He previously coached Dwyane Wade at Marquette University, and they reached a final four together in 2003. at Marquette University, and they made it to the final four in 2003.

Crean spent two stints at Michigan State, first during the 1989-1990 season as a graduate assistant under then head coach Jud Heathcote at the behest of then assistant coach Tom Izzo, whom Crean had befriended on the summer camp circuit. From 1990 to 1994 Crean served as the associate head coach under Ralph Willard at Western Kentucky. When Willard left Western Kentucky to become head coach at Pittsburgh in 1994, Crean was considered to replace him as head coach. Ultimately Crean followed Willard to Pittsburgh, serving as associate head coach for one year.

Crean was born and raised in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where he played basketball for four years. According to Crean, “I didn’t play a lot, although my coach called me his biggest tool, but I knew I wanted to coach.” While a student at Central Michigan University, Crean was an assistant coach at Mount Pleasant High School for five seasons, and at Alma College. Crean received his bachelor’s degree in parks-and-recreation studies from Central Michigan in

1989. Crean is married to Joani Harbaugh, whom he met while an assistant to Ralph Willard at Western Kentucky University (WKU) through a mutual friend, Ron Burns, at a gym where she was working as an aerobics instructor. Her father, Jack Harbaugh, was the head football coach at WKU at the time Crean was an assistant basketball coach there. She is also the sister of the first pair of brothers in NFL history to serve as head coaches: Baltimore Ravens head football coach John Harbaugh and former San Francisco 49ers head football coach and current University of Michigan Wolverines head football coach Jim Harbaugh. Crean and his wife have three children: Megan, Riley, and Ainsley. Riley is a right handed pitcher for the Georgia Bulldogs baseball team. Crean is a Christian.

He has three kids with wife Joani Harbaugh. Joani Harbaugh is the daughter of the football coaches Jim Harbaugh and Has three children with his wife Joani Harbaugh; Joani is the sister of football coaches Jim and John Harbaugh…

Tom Crean Net Worth

Tom Crean is one of the richest Basketball Coach from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tom Crean 's net worth $9 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He worked as the assistant coach for Mount Pleasant High School.

He was named the national coach best of 2012 by ESPN.com in 2012.

Thomas Aaron Crean (born March 25, 1966) is an American college basketball coach and the current head coach for the Georgia Bulldogs of University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. Crean was previously the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men’s basketball team. Prior to that, he served as head coach at Marquette University (1999–2008), where his team reached the 2003 NCAA Final Four.

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Who is Tom Crean Dating?

According to our records, Tom Crean married to Joani Harbaugh. As of December 1, 2023, Tom Crean’s is not dating anyone.

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Over his final seven seasons at Marquette, Crean compiled an aggregate record of 160-68 (.702). The 2002-03 season was one of the best in Marquette history. The team made a Final Four appearance for the first time since winning the NCAA Championship in 1977. Crean has referred to the team’s run as “one of the greatest four or five days of my life.”

Facts & Trivia

Tom Ranked on the list of most popular Basketball Coach. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Tom Crean celebrates birthday on March 25 of every year.

On April 1, 2008, Crean was hired as head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers, succeeding interim head coach Dan Dakich. Dakich had replaced former coach Kelvin Sampson, who resigned after NCAA recruiting violations. Between Crean’s hiring and the start of the 2008–09 season, freshman Eric Gordon opted to leave early for the NBA and star forward DJ White graduated. Two players kicked off the team by Dakich were not allowed back by Crean, one was dismissed by Crean and two transferred. As a result, Crean began with a roster consisting only of two walk-ons who had scored a combined 36 points in their careers. Despite the long odds, Crean was known to approach games and practices as if Indiana could compete in each one and to continue stressing Hoosier Hysteria and the long tradition of success at the school. He was well aware that he was walking into a difficult situation. However, when asked why he left Marquette, Crean replied, “It’s Indiana. It’s Indiana, and that is the bottom line.”

Who is Tom Crean's wife?

Joani Harbaugh

What is Tom Crean doing now?

University of Georgia On March 15, 2018, Crean was named head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs.

Is Tom Crean related to Jim Harbaugh?

Tom Crean, Georgia’s basketball head coach, is Harbaugh’s brother-in-law. Crean’s wife, Joani, is the sister of two famous football coaches: Jim and John, the Baltimore Ravens’ head coach.

Who is Tom Crean's brother in law?

Brothers-in-law

Who is John Harbaugh's wife?

Ingrid Harbaugh