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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I'm mixing and matching both those things, ... Given my nature, unless I had planned that this would be the summation of everything, then I'm going to keep going on with my job.
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I never ask anybody anything. I told him he better go out and be much more assertive. And he was magnificent.
In basketball, sometimes those things happen. We kind of overwhelmed them.
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In all my years of coaching, I can't remember a player who came as far as he did at that point of his career. He should be held up as an example.
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I know what it's like to be A) at another level, and B) overwhelmed with talent. Tonight, it didn't come easy. ... We had to work harder than we have had to work recently. Sometimes scores can be very deceptive.
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It's something they probably never imagined. We've imagined it, and we've done it. They could never have imagined it.
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It's something they probably couldn't have imagined. There is joy in Fairfield County, I'm sure.
Every one of those threes were like daggers.
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Everyone praised us, ... It was, 'They stuck around.'
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Everyone else is going to try and figure out a way to beat us. I just hope we don't find a way to beat us.
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Everybody's talking about how many teams we'll send. Let's see if we can get out of the league first. My greatest fear is that we might beat ourselves up so much that records won't be indicative of how truly good a team is.
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The biggest thing I'm waiting for is a 40-minute game.
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The Big East championship means a lot to us. If you can go through 16 games in this league and have to go to the places you do and beat the teams you have to beat, it's really tough. This is a terrific league and to come through it 14-2, I couldn't be prouder of our kids.
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The Big East championship means a lot. To go through 16 games in this terrific league with all its tough places to play and come out of it at 14-2, I couldn't be prouder of these kids. These kids sacrificed so much and became the epitome of what a team is.