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...
country guard
No one in the country has guard play like Villanova.
ball concern greatest
My greatest concern is ball-handling and getting the ball inside. If we get the ball inside, we'll be successful.
behind center coached dad field liked sit
My dad never coached me, but he was always there, ... He liked to sit out behind the center field fence.
maybe stunned sure team
Maybe it was subtraction by addition. I'm not sure of anything because I'm so stunned by the way my team played.
buy mutual perverse sort
No. I don't buy a lot of things they say. And they, if they're smart, don't buy a lot of things I say. It's kind of mutual respect, in a perverse sort of way.
deeply game honored humbled sacred taken
Now the game has taken me back to Springfield and I am so deeply honored and humbled to be in such a sacred place.
concerned kinds taking time worse
We're going backwards. I'm real concerned about that. We've been taking all kinds of time at it, and we're getting worse at it.
rather
Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.
good quite seen
Magnificent is a good word. He put on one of the better performances I've seen in quite a while.
best dad lost
I lost my dad when I was 15, ... Those were the best 15 years of my life.
admirer defensive game good minds top
I have been a big admirer of Don Haskins for a long time. He is one of the top defensive minds in the game and he is good man, a real coach.
coming credit good passing score trying
I give him some credit for coming in, passing the ball, not trying to score right way, rebounding. He was doing good things.
ball coming credit good happy passing score trying
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.
coming credit happy passing score trying
I give him credit for coming in and passing the ball, not trying to score right away, rebounding. I was happy with his play.