Jim Wooldridge
Jim Wooldridge
Jim Wooldridge is a former American college basketball coach and the current athletic director at the University of California, Riverside. Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Woolridge played on Putnam City High School's class 4A state basketball championship team in 1972. He earned his bachelor’s degree in physical education from Louisiana Tech in 1977, then earned a master’s degree in education from East Central University in 1979...
improbable low opposite week win
It's been the most improbable week of my career, in so many ways. (Nebraska) was the low of lows. To win at KU was the opposite end of the spectrum.
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We have had a lot of those kinds of games, but I thought we played good basketball. We stayed under control, played good defense and didn't get rattled.
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We have a positive thing going with our basketball team. I think our players feel good about what we're doing. Our coaches feel that way. We've been competitive. We can beat anybody in our league.
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We're finding ways to lose instead of finding ways to win. That's really unfortunate. You come a million miles in a game, and you know that you need to finish it in a positive way and we haven't been able to do that in the last week and a half. If it isn't one thing it's another.
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They're an extraordinary team. They've got a lot of weapons - the outside shooting and the inside play, the rebounding game. They can punish you on the boards. I don't see any weak link in their game right now even though they went to Oklahoma State and ran into a buzz saw.
ball watch
They're knuckleballs, but you watch the ball in flight, and you just thought they were going in. I thought it. You probably thought it.
consistency looking paper played throughout
They're just very, very strong. I know (Sunday) was probably disappointing for them, but just looking at them on paper and the consistency they've played with throughout Big 12 play, they just don't have a lot of chinks in the armor.
talked
As we talked yesterday, it's his call. I don't have anything to say about it.
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You've just got to make the play. Whether it's a rebound, a defensive play, a field goal, you've to got make it. There's no magic wand, you've just got to make it.
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After playing Texas and Kansas, those teams look very, very strong to me. It would be hard for one of those teams not to win his tournament.
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I think we made a lot of progress. We have kids with a great deal of life. I wish we could have won the game today. It would have been a good way to move forward.
few gets perhaps together
It gets a little better, a little better, a little better. If we're committed, perhaps we can put together a few more wins.
played
I think we can -- and have -- played better.
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I think they're very talented and he probably expected them to have a good year.