Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of...
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I think it's the very charm of exactly what this tournament is about and I truly believe that. We played Gonzaga in 1999 and everybody in Phoenix was attached to them. That's a very natural thing.
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I think this is really a great opportunity for Ed. He clearly has the talent to play basketball at the professional level, but if anyone can make this transition, it is him. He knows he has our support and we will do anything we can to help him make this move successfully.
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I think to back away (from those goals) a day before would be fool hardy. You aren't going to achieve every one of your goals. (But) the goal we would like most to achieve takes place in April.
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I think that's the charm of what this tournament is about.
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The ability to take somebody off the bounce is incredibly important. It's really tough to defend a guy who can go by you.
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That was the most physical game I have been involved in in a couple of years.
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That was some rebound. There wasn't anybody who was going to take that ball from him.
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The 16 beating the one, it's going to come. There is just too much parity in college basketball.
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That was one of the most exhausting, emotional games I've ever been in.
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That's the price you pay. And that's the price you want to continue to pay. We're not playing better or worse because of any kind of pressure. We're just not playing as well.
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That's the price you pay. And that's the price you want to continue to pay.
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John Thompson took something that could be perceived as almost menacing, because he was so big and was so serious looking, and used that to his advantage to create Hoya Paranoia, ... Every game they played, John was the underdog and yet he had Ewing and Wingate and Williams. That takes a masterful genius to do that.
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We need someone to take the pressure off Marcus.
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Well, 1,100 basketball games I've been fortunate to be involved with (and) I've never been quite involved with something like that. It was just an incredible game fought by two teams who gave it everything they possibly have. And I don't know if the teams could have gone another minute. I thought it was an incredible display of what competition is all about.