Yup, one thing Hoosiers could count on was Crean stockpiling talent. Why, the way he over-recruited it didn't surprise me in the least when I saw him on an episode of "Hoarders". They were pulling High School basketball players out of closets, stacked up floor to ceiling in bedrooms, even some in the freezer! The guy was an amazing recruiter. There are whole high schools in Indiana completely devoid of male athletes. Of course the good ones went to Michigan, Michigan State, etc, but dang if you could play 20 players at once Crean was ready.
Staples ran out of copier ink printing off LOI's. All found signed! Got names right out of the birth announcement pages of the newspaper.
Couple of decades and Crean would have gotten around to coaching that talent.