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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Our best big guy, certainly, was Jeff Adrien.
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Our 3-0 record and their 3-0 record is going to clash. Whichever team is able to impose its will and style on the other team is going to win.
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Right now, that guy would be Denham (Brown). In the last two games, it's been Denham against very good defense.
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Pittsburgh has turned into a rivalry game for us. They certainly have become a formidable opponent, an obstacle for us to get to a championship, or for seeding, or quite frankly just to get wins.
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Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.
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Regardless of our successes, failures, whatever it may be, it seems like Providence always plays us close. I think it's 3-3 over the last six games. Our national championship team (2004), they showed up at 12 o'clock at the (Hartford) Civic Center and beat us pretty good.
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I always thought he had quick feet. The only thing he never had quick confidence, therefore he never ever believed he could do it.
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He was very outspoken and talked about the kind of sacrifices he was willing to make for the team to win. You can't get a kid to do that unless it comes from the heart. And trust me it does.
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He's comfortable being the best sixth man in college basketball.
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He's becoming a tough guy not to play. You know he's going to guard folks. You know he's going to fill the lanes; he's a great fast break player. And you know he's tenacious.
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He has been and will continue to be a member of our basketball family and we will always be here to help Josh work through this process and arrive at the best decision for everyone involved.
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He was just magnificent. He put the ball on the deck, drove from 22 or 23 (feet), made threes. He really was a handful.
He wasn't going in. We weren't going to take that chance.
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He was one of the icons of basketball. He knew every coach and so when you would attend the Final Four he would say, 'I like the job you're doing.' He was a real gentleman and a classy, classy person.