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...
bothered broke create early half quickness
That first half we really got after it. Our athleticism and quickness bothered them. To create that many turnovers is pretty impressive. We kind of broke their back early in the game.
bothered create half quickness
That first half, we got on them pretty good. Our athleticism, our quickness bothered them. To create that many turnovers in one half is impressive.
case future happening road season teams
It's stunning, isn't it? Not stunning, maybe, but surprising, that that many teams went on the road and won. I don't think that's going to be the case as season progresses from here. We're projecting the future here, but I don't see that happening very often.
best hope mode
I hope we can do it consistently. It's our best mode of being successful.
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.
challenges guys inherit kansas kinds
That said, I didn't inherit those kinds of guys at Kansas State. We've have different challenges. Some have been similar, but we've had different challenges.
amazing drop game
That's a pretty amazing way to drop that game today, and it's just really unfortunate.
guys kids talked
We just need to make one more play. One more shot, one more rebound. We've talked about that through the season. But we've got some competitive guys on this team, and the kids want to do well.
basketball couple good needed plays shot wish
We had our shot and we needed a play or two here or there. I think I have a good basketball team. I wish we could have made a couple more plays ... I think we are really close.
carbon copy game physical saw tough
Big, strong, physical - a carbon copy of that we saw tonight. It'll be a very tough game for us.
attention close pay shade spread tend weapons
You have to pay close attention to him because he's the centerpiece of the offense. He can make a play at any time, but they have other weapons that tend to make you shade off of him. They can spread you out.
believed
Could you have believed it? How could you have guessed that anything like this was going to happen?
five front generate guys half hard league people points
You get into league play, and people make you play in the half court. You have to generate points with five guys in front of you. That's hard to do sometimes.
bad base doom fans gloom remains supported talking team top topic
There's not been this doom and gloom over the top of our heads. I think our team has been supported well by our base of fans out there. I just don't feel bad about what we're doing right now. The topic your talking about remains and has been dormant. It's just not something we concentrate on.