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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We?re going to have to develop into a good road team. Hopefully, this will be the first step in that direction.
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Very few players maintain the pace, obviously, he's on. Brian Fair, Ray Allen, Ben Gordon, the great shooters we've had here, if anybody could ... I don't think anybody we've ever had could get as hot as he could get. I think Ben Gordon and Ray might be better shooters, but I'm not sure anybody can get as hot as he could get.
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Very few players are able to maintain the pace he's on. I don't think anybody I've ever had can get as hot as he can get. Ben (Gordon) and Ray (Allen) are probably better shooters, but nobody gets as hot as he does. He's done that against a whole bunch of folks. It's not the first time.
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We're rooting for everybody we beat. That's the best way to put it.
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We've got an awful lot of stuff to cram in.
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We have no one like Brandon Roy. Nobody does.
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When he got a rebound, nobody was going to take it away from him. For a freshman to go in and make that kind of a stand is very significant.
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We've accomplished a lot. Twenty-two and two is a good start but we're going to have to finish the deal. The deal takes place over the next couple of weeks.
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We are lucky to have him as a part of our staff and this promotion is a well-deserved acknowledgment of the part that he has played in the phenomenal success of our basketball program.
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We're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. We were 13-3 against top-50 competition. We were 7-2 against top-25 competition. These kids are deserving of a No. 1 seed.
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We're incredibly happy at being a No. 1 seed. We're honored to be a one. I think the bracket looks, superficially to me, just looking over it, to be the toughest.
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We'll talk about that. You've seen it. And there's a pretty good chance you won't see it again.
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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.