Dick Bennett
Dick Bennett
Richard A. "Dick" Bennettis an American college basketball coach who is best known for building the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball program into a mid-major power and revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basketball program. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is the father of current Virginia Cavaliers head coach Tony Bennett and current Northern Illinois women's basketball head coach Kathi Bennett...
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Stanford used their inside people well. The big kid, we were simply unable to handle him.
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I think Batista's the rock on that team.
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I think it's the inability to rebound the ball that really cost us the game.
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Matt is a great fit for our staff. He is a young aggressive assistant coach who has been at two Division I universities that have turned around with his recruiting and coaching abilities. He was an integral part of the players landed at Denver and Middle Tennessee. He was a heck of a player in college who was a bulldog and he carried that into his coaching career. He has recruiting ties in the Northwest, West and Midwest.
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I feel good about doing it. It didn't work out for me, but I think it was the right thing to do. I would be much happier if things break for (Tony) next season than if they had for me this season. I'm at that point in my life now.
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I found it easier than I thought it would be. You have a ton of interviews, but if you're comfortable in those settings, it's not bad at all.
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He's got to wait until his turn comes up. I made it clear I want to go to the end of this season.
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He needs to develop a little more point guard mentality.
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Whether you like his music or not, he's a big name.
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We felt like we should be able to compete with them.
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We're all 100 percent for keeping the elementary schools in their communities opposed to making a warehouse for the kids, so to speak.
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We played miserable basketball in the first half. We looked like a team trying to prove it could be a 94-foot (end-to-end) team -- throwing one-handed passes, shooting on the fly.
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We earned last place. The team slowly eroded, and we played our worst basketball at the end of the season. The game meant something to Arizona State. They wanted it, and we didn't. We don't have the toughness to play 40 minutes, and Arizona State could have beaten us by 40.
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We are seeing in the numbers he is ahead, but the depth of his support is not as great as it could be, so I think what is going to happen is, they're going to take a look at him and compare him to Gore and see where it all plays out.