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
Tonight was just like our night. They missed some open shots. We didn't put a lid on the basket for their free throws.
This team never, ever gets affected ... they just battle back. We're playing our best basketball of the year by far right now.
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.
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.
Coach watches every game. I knew that and embraced it. He's the greatest coach in the history of basketball. What he did in college basketball will never be repeated. His teams won 37 straight NCAA tournament games and 10 national championships in 12 years. You know how everyone wants to be like Mike -- Michael Jordan -- as a player? Every coach wants to be like John. So I don't feel a shadow. I embrace it.
He's playing the best basketball of his career. Without him, we would not be here.
He's playing the best basketball of his career right now.
You want to be playing your best basketball at the end of the season. But not only are we playing good, we're getting better. This is truly a team.
The last seven, eight games, Ryan is playing the best basketball of his career.
We feel very, very fortunate to move on to the next round.
We hit some tough shots. It was a night of tough shots.
It was another outstanding job defensively. In the second half, we did a much better job of getting to the line and getting fouled.
The very best players are my kind of players.