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 in his second year with us, Caron started to realize in January just how good he could be with a lot of pushing and prodding. Ben was the same way. I think Rudy (Gay) is starting to understand some of the great gifts that he has and he's starting to showcase them a lot more and just becoming a better player.
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It certainly was one of the most disappointing losses we've had in an awful long time. We came out flat as heck. Just as we thought, that shot (yesterday) carried their momentum right into today.
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It certainly was one of the more disappointing losses we've had in an awfully long time.
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It certainly was one of the more disappointing losses we've had in an awful long time. I'm proud of the way the kids came back. But I'm incredibly, incredibly disappointed in the loss and incredibly disappointed in myself.
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I thought we would eventually take control of the game, and Kentucky kept fighting back. That was not in the game plan.
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It hurt us. And it's going to continue to hurt us because some of that's not going to get better. We have some real bad foul shooters who won't change their stroke and continue to miss.
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I thought at first when he released it, it was going to be good, but it wasn't.
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I give him some credit for coming in, passing the ball, not trying to score right way, rebounding. He was doing good things.
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I give him credit for coming in, passing the ball and not trying to score right away, rebounding, doing good things. I was happy with his play.
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I give him credit for coming in and passing the ball, not trying to score right away, rebounding. I was happy with his play.
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I felt bad for Rashad. He wanted to be so good. It's really unfortunate he didn't have the type of game he's capable of having.
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If, in fact, you felt it was a mistake of malice, a mistake of violence, a mistake repeated, those are all factors.
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I feel so good, (even) with my own sadness. I can only imagine, and probably better than most, the feeling they must have in that locker room and on that campus. Those kids, many of them were passed over by Big East schools and others, and I tip my hat to their courage ... to the incredible coaching job that Jimmy did and to everybody at George Mason University. ... I applaud them. I share in some degree Jimmy's joy because as a friend, I know what he must be feeling in his heart.
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I didn't have any preconceived notions that he couldn't play. When a prideful kid comes in working like crazy, he doesn't realize how much better he's gotten.