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...
game games head league next ourselves ready three
That's what this game is all about, getting ourselves ready for the next three games and then head on into our league games.
ask people
That's how I ask people to do things.
handle himself jeff rob
Did you ever see Jeff Adrien? I wouldn't want to put Rob Garrison in there. But I think Jeff can handle himself OK.
obviously played
Could he have played (Friday)? Probably. But obviously we didn't need him.
carried faces friendly league maybe road
Don't get too carried away. Get around this league, go to some of the places, get on the road and see some of the friendly faces in this league and maybe we'll see you another time.
four happen left marshall minutes tonight
Donyell Marshall was here tonight and he left with four minutes to go. That should never happen in a Connecticut game.
confident craig deal great guard looked point
Craig is a very confident kid, without being arrogant. I thought he really looked like a point guard tonight, with a great deal of composure.
bob credit deserved foreign hard incredible machine outside scoring seen took
Elvin Hayes was such an incredible scorer that it was hard for me to believe, ... I had seen Bob Pettit do it to some degree, he was 6-foot-9, but Elvin Hayes took it to a different level. He was a scoring machine who went outside at 6-foot-9 and that was so foreign to what we knew. He never really got the credit he deserved for what he accomplished.
gives physical presence
Ed gives us a physical presence that we're going to need.
america basketball far kid
No kid in America has come so far to be a top-20 basketball player.
aspiration aspire continue freshmen matter might particular prove seniors win
No matter what you are or who you are, you have to continue to prove yourself. That?s the aspiration we set for this particular team. Freshmen and sophomores might have different aspirations. But seniors aspire to win games.
disrupted effort incredible team
No team has disrupted us as much on offense. Their effort was extraordinary. I thought they did an incredible, incredible job.
disrupted either fought game gone incredible offense team teams
No team has disrupted our half-court offense as much as Washington. It was an incredible game by two teams who fought with everything they had. I don't think either team could have gone another minute.
awful beat dome lead losses mainly played poor team
It was one of the most disappointing losses we've had in an awful long time, mainly because we got off to such a poor start. We played like a team that had a 25-point lead at the Carrier Dome and then beat a team by 23 at our place.