Thank God the IU basketball season ended today.
After all of the misfortunes from the end of the Bob Knight era, to Mike Davis and then the Kelvin Sampson disaster, it felt like IU needed to purge itself.
It's unfortunate it had to happen to Tom Crean and his kids. They played hard and Crean coached well, but facts are facts - the majority of these kids probably had no business playing D1 basketball.
Despite that and their horrible season, they deserve a lot of credit. They took on a thankless task - keeping the IU basketball program on life support - and performed that task to the best of their ability despite the fact they probably all knew they would lose. That's no picnic at a storied program like IU, and they handled their situation well. It may have been the worst team in IU history, but it was one of the bravest.
Now comes the best part - the purge is over! Tom Crean gets help. And now that the IU program has been purged, he can start rebuilding efforts. Next year will be better!
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