John Beilein
John Beilein
John Patrick Beileinis an American college basketball coach and current men's basketball head coach at the University of Michigan. He is the 16th head coach of the Michigan Wolverines. The 2015–16 season is his ninth at Michigan. Beilein has won 665 career games at four-year universitiesand 732 games altogether, including those at the junior-college level. He has previously coached the West Virginia Mountaineers, Richmond Spiders, Canisius College Golden Griffinsin Division I as well as Le Moyne College, Nazareth Collegeand Erie...
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His skill level, and my love for having big guys who can shoot, made the marriage work. He plays and shoots and passes the way I like our big guys to do it to make our offense and defense work.
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He's getting there, ... It's going to take a lot of hard work. Our hope is that Kevin will be able to outrun and out-condition the centers we play against. He's going to play a lot of minutes if he can do that.
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The pace was incredible. Do you turn off the tempo? You just have to let the kids go. They got in that zone.
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We look at that every morning, ... We want to remember that every day, how bad we felt. That's the only picture we left up. That will motivate us.
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He was just playing so hard. He had difficulty with his shot but was out there keeping balls alive.
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There is no difference between Notre Dame and the teams in the top of the league.
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Pitt played tremendous defense on us. We did our best to open looks. It was hard to get them. They frustrate you.
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(Marshall) played a great game and they're getting better every day. I thought they just played excellent defense on us. We did all of the things we wanted to do to get open shots and they just didn't go in.
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I admire the way (the Panthers) play and how smart they play defensively.
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It felt like 10 years ago that we had beaten a really good team. We didn't have that quality win yet.
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I think he has to dunk on you, like two times, before you realize you're playing against a giant of a man. Hicks is as good a player as there is in the league and certainly a player who will merit (All-Big East) first-team considerations.
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I think Louisville is playing at the highest level they have all year.
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We have been successful against a No. 1 and a No. 2 seed, and that's pretty good to beat both in the same year.
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We played to the top level that we can play. Unfortunately, so did Cincinnati.