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Coaching carousel: Indiana’s Tom Crean may be a target at Missouri

The Missouri men’s basketball team has a coaching vacancy. Tom Crean may not have a job in the coming weeks. Could the two be a match?

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On Sunday afternoon, per Evan Daniels of of Scout, the Missouri men’s basketball team parted ways with head coach Kim Anderson and, indirectly, opened a potential exit door for Tom Crean.

With Crean’s days possibly numbered at Indiana, the most amicable break up for the Hoosiers and Crean would be the latter taking a job with another program — though it’s been previously reported by Yahoo’s Pat Forde that Crean isn’t looking for a parachute.

Still, here’s a Missouri reporter for Rivals.com on Sunday afternoon.

Fox Sports’ Aaron Torres shared the idea and it’s one that has been tossed around long before any of today’s movement.

While the future for Crean is uncertain in Bloomington, a quick exit out of the Big Ten Tournament and job openings be created around the league could lead to a warming seat.

Missouri seems like the idea landing spot for Crean with a low-pressure decent SEC job being a perfect place for him to hide out and return to form.

The Tigers were once a tournament regular, reaching the tournament 10 times between 1998 and 2012, their last trip coming under Frank Haith.

However, in two years under Kim Anderson, Missouri went 9-23 and 10-21 before following it up with a 7-23 season this year.