Boys prep basketball: District #300 Board expected to formally accept Crews' resignation Monday

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[The Du Quoin Board of Education is scheduled to formally accept the resignation/retirement of DHS boys basketball coach Mike Crews at its meeting Monday night (April 12).

The Illinois Basketball Coaches Association (IBCA) Hall-of-Famer submitted and then officially announced his retirement/resignation during Du Quoin's Athletic Booster's winter sports banquet March 26.

After returning to his alma mater five years ago, Crews' teams won 92 of 150 (92-58) games and three consecutive Class 2A regional championships.

The Indians were 25-7this past season, reaching the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1972. Du Quoin won three tournament titles (Du Quoin Tip-Off Classic, Sparta Mid-Winter Classic and the Du Quoin regional) as well as winning the River-to-River Conference's Mississippi Division crown. At the Herrin sectional and Pinckneyville Holiday Tournament, the Tribe returned home with second place trophies.

The 2009-2010 season marked the 41st season of coaching for Crews, who worked at the junior high, prep and collegiate levels.

A 1964 graduate of then Du Quoin Township High School, Crews spent over 20 years at Anna-Jonesboro before retiring from education in 1998. Crews was named one of the IBCA coaches of the year for 2010.

No timetable has yet been set for the naming of a replacement.