COLLEGE BASKETBALL

HOOSIERS PICK MARQUETTE’S CREAN AS NEW COACH

Indiana University will hire Marquette’s Tom Crean as its basketball coach and is expected to introduce him at a news conference today.

University trustee Philip Eskew confirmed the hiring. Eskew said Crean had signed a letter-of-intent with the university and was meeting with his team Tuesday night. Team spokesman J.D. Campbell said a news conference had yet to be scheduled.

The hiring comes near the end of a tumultuous six-week period in which former Hoosiers coach Kelvin Sampson resigned amid an NCAA scandal, interim coach Dan Dakich replaced him and then lost four of seven games.

Dakich also suspended guard Jamarcus Ellis for disciplinary reasons for the Hoosiers’ game at Penn State, and announced Tuesday that Ellis and guard Armon Bassett had been kicked off the team for missing two scheduled events.

FOOTBALL

BELICHICK INSISTS NOTHING MORE TO COME ON SPYGATE

Bill Belichick insists there are no new revelations to come about Spygate.

“I think they’ve addressed everything they possibly can address,” the New England Patriots coach said yesterday.

Belichick, speaking during the AFC coaches breakfast at the NFL meetings, said he was interviewed again after the Super Bowl about allegations that former team employee Matt Walsh had illegal tapes. Those tapes presumably included a walk-through by the St. Louis Rams on the day before the 2002 Super Bowl, a game the Patriots won.

“I’ve addressed so many questions so many times from so many people I don’t know what else the league could ask,” Belichick said.