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...
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.
wrong
You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.
anybody deep guard obviously ray shots tremendous unique
Villanova is a unique team. Villanova is going to be unique for anybody to play. No one has guard play like them. Ray obviously made some tremendous, tremendous shots from deep, deep range.
difficult special team unique
Villanova is a unique team. Even with special preparation, it's a very difficult team to play.
floor force small space
Villanova is always scary, because of the way they space the floor and force you to play small ball.
night took
Villanova doubled us all night and took us out of our offense.
adjustment aspect productive time true
There's got to be an adjustment on that. I don't think it's as productive as it should be, in a true sense of competitiveness ... just because of the time aspect about it.
ben question win
There's no question we don't win this without Ben Gordon.
country difficult guard team
There's no one in the country that has guard play like them and they're a very difficult team to stop.
champion good moral nature trying win
There's no good losses, no moral victories, nothing of that nature. But the champion in them did come out. They weren't going away without trying to win a game.
floor game kids league loose seems wars
We're a league of 16 now. It seems like the old wars of the '80s and '90s again. Every game comes down to 10 kids on the floor after loose balls, someone making a big play, someone getting a big rebound, someone making a stop.