Ben Braun
Ben Braun
Benjamin Abraham Braunis a men's college basketball coach. He is the former coach at Rice University, where he spent eight seasons. Previously, Braun spent 12 years with the California Golden Bears program and 11 years at Eastern Michigan University. He has won the most games of any coach in Eastern Michigan's history...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 November 1953
dominant team
They've been the most dominant team in our league.
defender fortunate good richard
We're fortunate Richard has been such a good defender through the years.
deserve
I'll say it-I think we deserve to be in the tournament.
affects faith fatigue given knock sets shots
I have probably given him too many minutes. Sometimes fatigue sets in, and the first thing it affects is your shot. I have faith he will knock some of those shots down.
couple gotten judgments
In my opinion, those were questionable judgments in those situations. If he had gotten a couple of those 'and-1s,' I think there would have been a different flow.
beat chris felt somebody
If somebody was going to beat us in that situation, it wasn't going to be Chris Hernandez. We felt we couldn't let him do it.
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He's really gaining confidence. His health, for one, has contributed to his confidence and number two, having some success knocking down shots. That goes a long way. He's been challenged and he's answered those challenges. To take a step, you've either got to challenge yourself or answer the challenges that have been thrown at you, and he's done that.
anybody certainly pride takes
I didn't know that. But if anybody can do it, Leon is certainly capable. He takes pride in rebounding.
We'll just have to see how he responds.
against ourselves playing pressure washington
We can't play under pressure. We can only put pressure on ourselves to do our best. There's enough pressure playing against Washington State. Let's not play under any more pressure than there really is.
afford ahead basketball bounce game heads huge might natural operate reaction step team
We can't operate now with our heads down. We're disappointed. We've got basketball ahead of us and we have a huge game Saturday. It's important for our team to bounce back. The natural reaction might be to be down, but we can't afford that. We have to step up.
crucial fight heads operate team
We can't operate now with our heads down. It's important that our team bounces back. It's crucial we fight and battle.
bounce challenge couple dwell last mentality sit
We have to bounce back, that's our challenge right now. We have to have that same mentality during the last couple of weeks. We can't sit here and dwell on this.
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We don't have a lot of guys that have been deep in the postseason. (But) Richard is one of those guys. Our team has to understand that we don't have second chances now. It's going to be a huge challenge for us this week.