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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I know very little about Southern Illinois, but I'll know a lot in the next couple days. The Missouri Valley Conference has strong teams in the tournament every year.
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We're very excited about our television schedule. To go from one or two national games a year to possibly double-digit games on national television is good news, but you can't get on television unless you play the top teams in the country. It speaks well about the direction of our program.
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It's tough to get in a rhythm in this league. You can go to playing teams who play all zone one day, to teams who play all (man-to-man defense) the next.
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There is no difference between Notre Dame and the teams in the top of the league.
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I'm trying to stress with (my team) how good this win is.
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In games like this there are little three or four minute spans when you've got to be mentally tough enough when that other team is really challenging you. They're distracting your game and you can't give in and I thought we gave in a couple of times and it will be a great thing for us to learn from.
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I know they have a lot to gain. But we're going in with a lot to gain, too, as far as momentum for the tournament.
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I know we'll be walking into a hotbed. They have a lot to gain by a win over West Virginia. But we're going in there with a lot to gain as well, in terms of momentum going into the Big East Tournament.
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Nothing will be a surprise to us as far as the talent level.
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It's not a very relaxing time to have an extra day or two off for the coaches. It's always a challenge playing them because they've basically played volleyball against us on the backboards.
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It's not about beating the No. 1 team, it's about getting better every day. However, we should be confident coming out of this game.
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I'm glad he made it. They had their guys in the corners to try to kick it out for the tie.
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I'm just happy to be in the NCAA Tournament. This is terrific for us to go back-to-back years.
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I haven?t been around the conference that long, but I can?t think of a better one. It was a battle every night before this year. Adding Louisville, Cincinnati, Marquette and South Florida makes its even tougher.