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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A lot of beat writers asked the question, 'Do you think you looked by this game with the Villanova game coming up?'. We didn't. We didn't look by it. The first 25 minutes was a pretty good indication of that.
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A lot of teams play us in a grind, not in a wide-open game. That played to our depth and our experience.
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A lot of times games are built up and they don't fulfill their promise. This game more than fulfilled its promise. Villanova may be, pound-for-pound, the toughest team that we've played anywhere, any time. Early in the game, we had to match their toughness. They were getting every offensive rebound. They were hustling like crazy. Unless you have a tough team, you cannot win this conference. It was like an old Big East backyard ball amongst two really good teams.
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It's a very important (cause). Having two sisters who had bypass surgery and a mother who died after bypass surgery, I'm very aware of it.
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It's been mentioned that maybe Marcus should stay another year because he owes me for being in his corner. He never asked me to be in his corner. He doesn't owe me anything.
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They made threes, Sheridan hit some tough baselines. I don't know what adjustments you'd like us to make for Allan Ray's 28-footers.
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They played some big games last year without Curtis. They can still win the league but it's going to be tougher. They scare me because of the way they spread the court and make you play small ball.
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They pass exceptionally well. They have three seniors and they have very good big people. The most disappointing aspect was that one-on-one, our two 6-10 kids could not guard their two 6-7 kids.
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They gave us fits. I don't think we shot well, but we played well.
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They gave us a tremendous shot. We withstood it and stood up to it. I couldn't prouder of my basketball team.
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They gave us a good old-fashioned butt-whipping. We were god-awful. For the first time, I'm wondering if a couple of our kids are as good as they're supposed to be.
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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.