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...
furnace gold man silver test
You test gold in a furnace and silver with a crucible, but you test man with praise.
plays
They made the plays they had to make and we didn't.
came counted missed shots
They made their shots when it counted and we missed ours. It came down to that.
alternate created creates figured found given josh locked shots
They figured him out. Josh is not one who creates his own shot. His shots have been created off of our screens, and we've given him as many as possible. But they've locked him out by just concentrating on him and we haven't found a lot of alternate scoring.
arrogance empties face false gut learned pride punch realize rebuilding truly
Sometimes you have to be empty. That is one thing I have truly learned in all the rebuilding projects. At some point, you have got to take a punch to the gut that just empties all the arrogance or pride or false hopes, and then you realize we better face up to who we are.
arrive aside banner conference heads listen perfectly prove raised talking
I don't think the conference has done all that well, to be perfectly honest. I think this is a conference that will arrive late. I don't know why, but it will reassert itself. We haven't raised the banner very high, aside from Washington. We have a lot to prove as a conference. I'm not disturbed. I don't listen to talking heads that the conference is overrated. It will come out in the wash.
arrive conference
I don't think the conference has done all that well. I think this is a conference that will arrive late. Right now, we're all guessing.
great sure
I don't think we have any great players. In fact, I'm pretty sure we don't.
clearly close earned games needed throw unable
I clearly think we've earned that. Take all the close games you want and throw them out the window. When we needed to perform, we were unable to.
bit dig half perfectly played
You're always going to have mistakes. You're not going to play perfectly down the stretch, when everything has to work. You know there are going to be some miscues. We just haven't played solidly in the first half and we've had to dig out of that. ... It's just a bit too much for us.
apart far hate loss mind
The loss of Derrick has impacted us far more than I thought it would. I don't mind when we're beaten. I just hate to see us come apart at the seams.
affected loss
The loss of Derrick has affected us more than I expected.
smart teams tough washington
I've had a lot of teams for 40 years now and they always look smart and tough out there, but I just haven't been able to do it at Washington State.
good grow maybe next perhaps played poor replace seniors sometime team three
You can't automatically replace three seniors with three sophomores and say you're better. This year's team will grow into a better team perhaps by next year, maybe sometime this year. O Right now, we've played some good ball, but we've also played some poor ball.