Ben Howland
Ben Howland
Benjamin Clark Howlandis an American college basketball coach for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and former player. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Northern Arizona University from 1994 to 1999, the University of Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2003, and the University of California, Los Angelesfrom 2003 to 2013. Howland became the first men's coach in modern college basketball history to be fired shortly after winning an outright power-conference title. He is one of the few NCAA Division I...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 May 1957
CityLebanon, OR
We have great kids and they're all on the same page about winning and getting the program back to the highest level.
This will be unbelievably hard on everyone, even though, you know, religiously, we all understand that this is a celebration day of her life. But it's too short a life as far as we're all concerned.
This was a great gut-check win for our team, our program. To go through all that and have to go to overtime and to gut it out, it's a testament to these kids' character.
We'll work on our foul shooting, I promise you.
We came out and felt like we got sped up by their defense.
We beat an NCAA Tournament team without question. It's not even an issue.
We're a two or a three seed and I think that's pretty certain.
God, did he make some incredible athletic plays.
I got a little emotional. But that didn't affect our performance. What I said was, 'Coach Wooden has been admitted to the hospital.' He didn't want to go. Sounds just like the coach. His family made him do it. He's going to be fine.
If we make our foul shots, it's probably not as tight.
If that's not a very good team we just played then I don't know what is. We feel very, very fortunate to move to the next round.
He was critical. Everything starts with having a point guard.
Those kids were connected at birth as far as I'm concerned. I just happened to be the coach that was lucky enough to get them to come.
To be down 11 at halftime (Thursday) and come out and play so well to start the second half - we have to stop doing that.