Tom Crean is a collegiate basketball coach. Crean landed his first collegiate coaching job as an assistant at Western Kentucky University. He was also an assistant coach at Pittsburgh Unviersity and Michigan State.

Crean has served as head coach for the Indiana Hoosiers and Marquette University, where his Golden Eagles reached the 2003 NCAA Final Four. Crean's basketball philosophy emphasizes fast breaks and transition offense. His guidance of the Indiana program to success from "unthinkable depths" was regarded as one of the most remarkable rebuilding projects in NCAA basketball history. In 2012, he was named the mid-season Jim Phelan National Coach of the Year and the Sporting News Big Ten Coach of the Year, as well as the ESPN.com National Coach of the Year. In 2016, Crean was named by the coaches and media as the Big Ten Coach of the Year, after coaching Indiana to their second outright Big Ten regular-season championship in four years.

Crean is a Christian. As of 2020, he is the current head coach for the 7-1 Georgia Bulldogs of University of Georgia. He has been head coach there since 2018.