Dana Altman
Dana Altman
Dana Dean Altmanis an American college basketball coach. He is the head coach of the University of Oregon Ducks men's basketball team. Previously he was head coach at Creighton, Kansas State and Marshall. Altman has won conference coach of the year awards at each school he has coached, and has led his teams to 12 appearances in the NCAA men's basketball tournament...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 June 1958
finish found game stay tough
It's a tough way to end the season. We found a way to stay in the game ... we just didn't finish it.
deserve good hard last league month number playing six teams
It's hard to say a month out what your league deserves, but we've got six teams playing pretty good basketball. This last month is going to be interesting for our league like it is for all leagues, but when it's all said and done, we'll have a number of teams that deserve attention.
free missed throw
It's been one of those years where it comes down to a missed free throw or a missed rebound. Everything was so close.
phase
They outworked us; they out-toughed us in every phase of the game, and we got what we deserved.
found hit
They found a way to win. They just hit some big shots.
care committee complain fine job talk teams whining
There will be no whining or complaining from us. We had our opportunity. We didn't take care of business. The committee does a fine job every year. We're not going to complain or talk about any teams that got in.
whining
There will be no whining or complaining from us.
deserve league won
They're going to be in (the NCAA) and deserve to be after having won our league by two games.
crowd game third won
That's probably the third game they've won for us this year. The crowd wouldn't let us quit.
We have no complaints. We had our opportunities, we just didn't get it done.
basketball difference gap larger neutral opportunity perceives played public schools smaller
When we have an opportunity to play the larger schools, they see the difference is just not there. Basketball is a home-and-road sport and, traditionally, the big schools have always played at home. Now when the smaller schools get them on a neutral court, the gap is not what the public perceives it to be.
contain decent felt might opportunity zone
He's had some big games. We felt like the zone might give us the opportunity to contain him. For the most part, it did a decent job.
early few focus games line lost talk talking team weeks won
We've won some games we shouldn't. We probably lost some games we should've won. We just need to focus on getting better. If a few weeks down the line we're still in the hunt, we can talk about it later. But it's too early for our team to be talking about anything like that.
fighting toughness
I thought we showed a lot of resiliency and toughness in fighting back. We were in trouble, obviously.