Grade A hire

The Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy has a column in this week's edition rating the college basketball hires this offseason.

He hands out an A to Indiana for hiring Tom Crean.

His next highest grade? LSU.

He gives the Tigers an A- for the Trent Johnson hire.

While Johnson and the Tigers program are going through the inevitable transition period, it certainly helps him and his program to have national credibility for the hire.