BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana is turning to Tom Crean to bring respectability back to the Hoosiers.

A couple of dozen victories each season would help, too.

After a tumultuous season and turbulent coaching search, the Hoosiers hired Crean on Tuesday as what university officials hope will be a long-term replacement for Kelvin Sampson.

Sampson, a former Washington State coach, resigned in February amid a phone-call scandal that included five major allegations from the NCAA.

Crean is expected to be introduced at a news conference today.

"I think he's a great choice," university trustee Philip Eskew Jr. said after confirming the hiring. "He has a Big Ten background [as a Michigan State assistant], a Midwest background, he's recruited in the state of Indiana and he has an impeccable record, so I think Indiana is on the road to recovery."

Sampson's resignation Feb. 22 led to the promotion of interim coach Dan Dakich, a threatened players' boycott and the indignity of losing four of their last seven games — including a first-round NCAA game to Arkansas. The Hoosiers finished the season 25-8.

Six players skipped Dakich's first practice and never played with the same zeal after Sampson's departure. Dakich gave guard Jamarcus Ellis a one-game suspension for disciplinary reasons, and on Tuesday dismissed Ellis and Armon Bassett, another starting guard, after they missed a scheduled appointment last week and failed to run extra laps as their punishment the next day.

Crean, 42, was 190-96 in nine seasons at Marquette.

"Coach Crean has brought pride, honor and a winning mentality to our men's basketball program," a Marquette statement said. "It is no surprise that other universities would seek him out."

Indiana athletic director Rick Greenspan also spoke with Washington State coach Tony Bennett, who said he was not interested in the job.

Grier, Oregon St. talk

San Diego coach Bill Grier has been offered the Oregon State job, a source told The Oregonian.

Grier, previously a Gonzaga assistant coach, told San Diego media he has talked with Oregon State officials but hasn't been offered the job and indicated there is no timetable for his decision.

Portland St. players jailed

PORTLAND — Two Portland State players are in a Mexican jail after an alleged altercation in the resort town of Cabo San Lucas but have not been charged, U.S. consular officials said.

Lorena Blanco, spokeswoman for the consulate in Tijuana, said a list of attorneys has been sent to the families of Jeremiah Dominguez and Scott Morrison, players who helped the Vikings qualify for the NCAA tournament for the first time.

Blanco said 6-foot-11 senior Morrison, not 5-6 junior Dominguez, beat up Kyle Meagher, 23, a student at Lansing (Mich.) Community College.

"Dominguez was the not the one who beat him up but he ran away from police and that's what got him in trouble ... Police threw him on the ground and punched him because he resisted arrest," Blanco said of Dominguez, who was the Big Sky Conference player of the year.

A hospital official said Meagher's "lower jaw was broken into pieces."

Morrison was the Big Sky defensive player of the year.

Notes

• Two seasons into his tenure, Sean Sutton resigned under pressure as Oklahoma State coach after a 17-16 season.

Athletic director Mike Holder said Sutton, 39, knew the expectations for a program that reached the Final Four twice with Sutton on the staff of Eddie Sutton, his father.

• In his first news conference since returning from a seasonlong leave of absence, an often-testy Arizona coach Lute Olson sparred with media and provided few specifics for the leave, which was the subject of speculation.

Olson also said assistant coach Kevin O'Neill, who served as interim coach last season and was named Olson's eventual permanent successor, will not remain on his staff.

• A jury might conclude Craig Holcomb, a white ex-Iona assistant coach, was fired because he was married to a black woman, a federal appeals court said as it reinstated a lawsuit that had been dismissed by a judge.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan restored the suit brought by Holcomb against Iona, finding a jury might say he was fired in part because of his wife's race.

• Kent State assistant Geno Ford is expected to take over the program, replacing Jim Christian, who took the Texas Christian job.

• Gonzaga coach Mark Few is a finalist for the Clair Bee Coach of the Year Award, along with Stanford's Trent Johnson, Oregon's Ernie Kent, Davidson's Bob McKillop and Mississippi State's Rick Stansbury.