no banner for Tommy...,

[augoman]

can't hang the 'big 10 champion' banner tonight, eh Tom?  Would have been nice on senior night and all.

[avid1010]

no banner my a$$...he's hanging a banner for the fans. 

[Pakuni]

Yay, another thread about a guy unaffiliated with Marquette for 59 months.

[Benny B]

Yay, another thread about a guy unaffiliated with Marquette for 59 months.

That's a pretty broad definition of unaffiliated you're using considering some of the talk around here.

[Niv Berkowitz]

Christ man, move on with your life.

[buckchuckler]

Considering how MU and OSU are likely fighting for similar seeds, it would have been real nice if IU could have won tonight. 

[MUBasketball]

Considering how MU and OSU are likely fighting for similar seeds, it would have been real nice if IU could have won tonight. 

Precisely.

[Jay Bee]

You think a loss would stop the party? No way.

Had Indiana clinched its first outright league title since 1993 by beating Ohio State, the Hoosiers could have celebrated in front of a sellout crowd by donning championship hats, cutting down the nets at Assembly Hall and hoisting a Big Ten trophy.

Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller watching senior night festivities (via ESPN3.com)
Instead Indiana staggered to a surprising 67-58 loss Tuesday night ... and still did all the rest of that stuff anyway.

[Eldon]

You think a loss would stop the party? No way.

Had Indiana clinched its first outright league title since 1993 by beating Ohio State, the Hoosiers could have celebrated in front of a sellout crowd by donning championship hats, cutting down the nets at Assembly Hall and hoisting a Big Ten trophy.

Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller watching senior night festivities (via ESPN3.com)
Instead Indiana staggered to a surprising 67-58 loss Tuesday night ... and still did all the rest of that stuff anyway.

Unbelievable.  SMH

[The Lens]

Mike & Mike were just talking about this.  It's not an MU story it's a college basketball story.  They brought out ladders to cut down nets and handed out champs Tee's.  Greenberg seemed amazed they would do this, no one in MKE is surprised.  The CMO is back and better than ever.

[4everwarriors]

Part of the trick to marketing is to be innovative and unique. Well, T-Cubed certainly thinks of gimmicks mainstream coaches wouldn't dream of.

[Lennys Tap]

Maybe if they lose to Michigan they'll have a ticker tape parade from the airport to the campus.

[4everwarriors]

Wonder what the Big 10 co-championship rings are gonna look like?

[Golden Avalanche]

Lot of jokes for a guy who brought Indiana from the dregs of college basketball to a conference title in five years.

No doubt we'll have this many comedians come Saturday at 16.10.

[StillAWarrior]

They were talking about this on Mad Dog radio this morning on XM, too.  Wow.  I've been known to defend TC on this board and certainly don't hate him as much as many here.  But, wow...  Really, really bad.  Indefensible.  Even if they'd been picked as a middle of the pack team and secured a share of the conference title, you can't have a ceremony like this (i.e., hats, shirts and cutting down the freaking nets) after a loss.  It's particularly ridiculous to do it in a season when they were the pre-season No. 1, have spent a substantial amount of time at No. 1, and are considered by many to be a favorite to win the title.

Interestingly, they also said that Indiana is hanging a separate banner to commemorate this achievement, even though their usual practice is to simply add the year to an existing banner that lists all their conference titles.

Wow.

[Lennys Tap]

Interestingly, they also said that Indiana is hanging a separate banner to commemorate this achievement, even though their usual practice is to simply add the year to an existing banner that lists all their conference titles.

Wow.

"It's Indiana, it's Indiana" becomes "It's TC, it's TC" at the first hint of success. How surprising.

[JD]

Christ man, move on with your life.

Hahaha, this made me laugh a lot!  thanks

[The Lens]

Lot of jokes for a guy who brought Indiana from the dregs of college basketball to a conference title in five years.

No doubt we'll have this many comedians come Saturday at 16.10.

It's Indy-freaking-Ana.  Look at their last 3 coaches:

Bob Knight...5 Final Fours
Mike Davis...National Runner Up, Big Ten Title in his 2nd year
Kelvin Sampson...2 seasons, both 3rd in conf (after replacing a fired coached).  25 wins in his 2nd season, 14-4 in conf.

Then TC comes in, kicks out everyone because they smoke too much weed and don't go to class.  Surprise, they're bad for a few years, then SURPRISE, they're good again, because it's Indy-freaking-Ana.  They're nearly always good.  If they hired Cal, they'd have a National Title by now.  

Look TC chose to clean house.  Or at least he took a job where he was told to clean house.  The 6-25 shouldn't surprise anyone.  Neither should a share of the Big Ten Title five years later.  A Final Four, while expected, will surprise me.

[MileHigh]

I joked about it with some guys at work today.  As IU grads, they thought the hoopla of tshirts, hats, and cutting of the nets was dumb and embarrassing.  I don't have a problem with the trophy being rolled out and neither did they.  But they were upset you lost on senior night, do the senior speeches, then cut the nets down acting like things are good.

[mugrad99]

Interestingly, they also said that Indiana is hanging a separate banner to commemorate this achievement, even though their usual practice is to simply add the year to an existing banner that lists all their conference titles.

Wow.

1983 has a separate banner as well. Knight did this to honor the fans after Ted Kitchell went down with an injury...
Crean is doing this banner because of the fans that stuck with the program during the down years...I don't agree with it, but it's not that big of a deal to me. Let's see how far they go before deciding what to put on a banner.

[tower912]

My wife, the diehard hoosier fan for the last 30 years, with no knowledge of the conversations that go on regarding banners on this board, says "That's just dumb.   Why does there need to be a special one?    What, they are going on with the t-shirts and net cutting after this performance?     Are you kidding me?"    Being a wise husband, I just laughed and agreed with her.   

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

1983 has a separate banner as well. Knight did this to honor the fans after Ted Kitchell went down with an injury...
Crean is doing this banner because of the fans that stuck with the program during the down years...I don't agree with it, but it's not that big of a deal to me. Let's see how far they go before deciding what to put on a banner.

Nonsense. He's doing it for himself because he's desperate for affirmation. Did he put up the ridiculous banners in the Bradley Center (taken down as soon as he left) for the fans? And spare me the "seniors deserve to have a banner." Having "2013" on the conference banner is plenty. It's so bizarre and, the fact that this is now an issue, makes this new banner all the more awkward and forever conspicuous.

You'd think a guy with a team as talented as Indiana would make it clear that if they want a banner, they're going to have to earn it in the tournament.

[NavinRJohnson]

1983 has a separate banner as well. Knight did this to honor the fans after Ted Kitchell went down with an injury...
Crean is doing this banner because of the fans that stuck with the program during the down years...I don't agree with it, but it's not that big of a deal to me. Let's see how far they go before deciding what to put on a banner.

http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20091104/BLOGS08/911049927

Agree with PRN. I fail to see how the situations are comparable.

[NavinRJohnson]

It's Indiana, and banners on the same shirt? Tom Crean's wet dream.

http://iuhoosiers.cbscollegestore.com/product_enlarge.cfm?product_id=155437&store_id=406&image_num=1

[mugrad99]

Nonsense. He's doing it for himself because he's desperate for affirmation. Did he put up the ridiculous banners in the Bradley Center (taken down as soon as he left) for the fans? And spare me the "seniors deserve to have a banner." Having "2013" on the conference banner is plenty. It's so bizarre and, the fact that this is now an issue, makes this new banner all the more awkward and forever conspicuous.

You'd think a guy with a team as talented as Indiana would make it clear that if they want a banner, they're going to have to earn it in the tournament.

As I said, I don't agree with it either, but that's the story he's going with. The fans that still showed up despite going 1-17 in his first season in the Big10. Now the net cutting has to be one of the dumbest stunts I have heard. He had it planned, they lost the game, and <insert no ability to make an in game adjustment joke here>