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
When the guy hit it out of bounds right before that, that was just a little rushed. But we actually had a little opening there for three with nobody at home but couldn't make the pass.
We're going up against the human fly-swatting machine.
This program's always had tough kids. That is way too general. ... I'm not buying they didn't have toughness here.
This program is where it is right now, as the greatest tradition in all of college basketball, the greatest history in all of college basketball. Eleven national championships. It all starts with Coach Wooden.
We're playing our best basketball of the year by far.
We're playing our best basketball of the season by far right now. We're improving, we're getting better.
There are a lot of games yet to be played. It's going to be a great year. The thing that's good about the Pac-10 is anyone can beat anybody on any given night. And Oregon is playing solid basketball.
When I finished watching the tape from last year I was embarrassed with our effort. I am so much happier with where we are now than a year ago.
Our team is definitely playing its best basketball right now. If you look over the course of the last eight games, we've really been playing great defensive team basketball.
Our transition defense was so good. It had to be because Memphis is so good at pushing it.
Our trainer did a good job snapping it right back into place.
I thought they were terrific. They did an outstanding job of dealing with our press. We were trying real hard.
I thought that in the first 10 minutes we came out a little tight. In the last 30 minutes, we were terrific.
I thought our intensity defensively for the entire 40 minutes was really, really incredible. That's the best defense we've played all year.