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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Rashad doesn't mind who he takes a three on. We put him at point guard and every play worked its way to be for him. That's kind of unusual. He will be on track to be the greatest 3-point shooter we've ever had here, and we've had some pretty good ones.
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People had the misconception that if you have three 6-10 kids, all of a sudden you have a good basketball team. The game takes instinct.
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John Thompson took something that could be perceived as almost menacing, because he was so big and was so serious looking, and used that to his advantage to create Hoya Paranoia, ... Every game they played, John was the underdog and yet he had Ewing and Wingate and Williams. That takes a masterful genius to do that.
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We've accomplished a lot. Twenty-two and two is a good start but we're going to have to finish the deal. The deal takes place over the next couple of weeks.
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Normally, it takes us about 10 minutes to get into the game. Today, it took us 25.
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I think to back away (from those goals) a day before would be fool hardy. You aren't going to achieve every one of your goals. (But) the goal we would like most to achieve takes place in April.
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He makes you make plays you don?t want to make. He takes teams out of their offense by the ball pressure he puts on you. He?s really, really been a godsend to us in many ways.
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It was just an amazing game for them. They made us look poor. And we made ourselves look poor. It takes two.
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I'm not complaining, but that takes a toll. The league is just so difficult.
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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.