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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They doubled us, trapped up, took us out of our offense. They were allowed to be physical. The way this game was called and played, they were able to keep the ball out of the paint.
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They don't measure heart by inches, they don't measure courage. They took advantage of what they have better than we took advantage of what we have.
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They don't measure heart by inches, they don't measure courage, they don't measure basketball instinct and intelligence.
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They're going to utilize their quickness the best they can. We're going to try to use our size as much as we can. Certainly that makes for a very interesting battle. My guys' concern is getting the ball inside. If we get the ball inside, we'll be successful.
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They're going to utilize their quickness as best they can. We're going to try to use our size as best we can. That makes it a very interesting battle.
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They're faster, quicker. Are they better? It's hard to convince me of that after the way Padgett played against us.
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They're a good basketball team. They're going to be very tough out in their league. We gave up 24 points in a very short period of time.
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The more threes they made, the more reluctant we were to play the post with a big-to-big double (team). We couldn't double with a guard. Every one of those threes were like daggers. They allowed Lewis and Thomas to do what they wanted.
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Back in 1990, the (league) championship was a mad, mad celebration. It never affected that team because it was a magical year. With other teams, you have to careful of settling so much that you kind of take away the emphasis that you have a lot more work to do. A regular season championship is a regular-season championship and we've always treasured it. It's important to us. Is it the most important thing? No.
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That's where we are right now. We could have new teams in the Final Four every year.
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That's what this game is all about, getting ourselves ready for the next three games and then head on into our league games.
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That's how I ask people to do things.
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Albany was magnificent for 30 minutes. We were equally, if not better or more magnificent, the last 10 minutes of the basketball game.
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Albany gave us every single thing they had. I hugged Coach Brown, who I don't even know, and said to him very simply, 'You guys are special.' And they were special.