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 was just an incredible game fought by two teams who gave it everything they possibly had. I just thought it was an incredible display of what competition is all about.
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It was an incredible game fought by two teams who gave everything they possibly could. I don't know if either team could have gone another minute.
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The worst thing that could have possibly happened to us.
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I pulled Marcus off and berated him as much as I possibly could. Marcus didn't come out with the kind of enthusiasm that he needs to.
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He's an incredibly talented kid but he's a very young kid. I said the other day I would like to keep him another year. I'd like to keep him another two years if I possibly could.
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Well, 1,100 basketball games I've been fortunate to be involved with (and) I've never been quite involved with something like that. It was just an incredible game fought by two teams who gave it everything they possibly have. And I don't know if the teams could have gone another minute. I thought it was an incredible display of what competition is all about.
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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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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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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.