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
I see it as a momentum thing all the way. We're going to feed on that win. We're going to feed on that emotion.
We've got to make our free throws and out-board our opponents if we're going to win any more games in this tournament.
He's a great kid and a great competitor. He's going to bounce back and be great in the NCAA Tournament. We need to beat Arizona, but it's hard to beat a good team like Arizona three times. They've improved since we've last seen them.
He's a complete player. He is going to be an excellent pro and he could be playing for the Sonics right now just as much as for the Huskies.
He's a great player. He'll be playing in the NBA whenever he leaves college.
Good, because we'd like to have a tournament with all Pac-10 teams advancing far into the tournament.
We can play any way you want to play. Florida wants to get up and down, they're going to try to press us, they're going to try to create a tempo that's up and down. That's great.
We can play any way you want to play. At the end of the day, we have to defend, rebound, take good shots and take care of the basketball.
That was a great gut-check win for our team, our program. We are happy, but we want to win our next game (Saturday at Stanford to win the title outright).
That was a mistake. He grabbed the ball away and the official saw the second part of the play.
That's a very important win we got tonight. It's a credit for these kids to handle any adversity.
I was really hoping we would play really well tonight so he and his family could enjoy that in the hospital room that he was in tonight. You know, in terms of what he means to the program, he's the patriarch. He is why this program is where it is. It's one of the elite programs in the country and has been since he started that job in 1948.
Herb is a great coach. He's so smart and intelligent. Our league is a great league. It's getting tougher and tougher. Herb just made it tougher.
Great kid. He could care less about that stuff.