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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It?s not Rashad?s fault, trust me. Whatever we ask our kids to do, it?s our responsibility. We make the choice of who plays who. ... I?m incredibly, incredibly disappointed in the loss, incredibly disappointed in myself. I would have changed a couple of things probably the last two, three minutes of the game and into overtime.
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It took us 30 minutes to shake them. Maybe 35 minutes, and that's due to their tenacity. Hilton Armstrong changed everything in the middle.
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Those jump shots were killers. You could probably go over six, seven, eight, nine plays that changed the game.
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As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.
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Hilton Armstrong was the best player on the court. He changed everything in the middle. He had big baskets. He was immense from the foul line.
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All of a sudden the game changed when Jeff Adrien got in it. That was something for a freshman to express his emotion the way he did.
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We just shut the engine off. You can't go to sleep.
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We just shut the engine off. We just couldn't get it back. It's a hard thing to do in sports and I think all of us have seen it and unfortunately an experienced team like this, it shouldn't happen to.
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We weren't prepared. We were living on an 11-0 season that meant absolutely nothing because you have to play the next one.
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We were living on an 11-0 season that meant absolutely nothing. We took a 15-8 lead and from then, didn't play an ounce of basketball.
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We were living on an 11-0 season that meant absolutely nothing. We never were much of a factor.
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We shrunk ourselves down to make ourselves better.
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We turned the ball over 26 times yet I think our heart was shown on enough occasions. When you're down 10 points or down seven points with something to go, you need to call upon the reserves. There's something inside you that won't let you lose.
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We got out ahead and they just took over the game as we started standing around. But we came back with that run which really speaks to the character of this team.