Stan Heath
Stan Heath
Stanley Heath, IIIwas the head men's basketball coach at the University of South Florida. Heath formerly served as basketball coach of the University of Arkansas and Kent State University, the latter of whom he led to the Elite Eight of the 2002 NCAA Basketball Tournament. He led all three programs to at least one NCAA Tournament...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth17 December 1964
came thankful
I'm thankful for our fans. The ones who came made a difference.
aggressive forcing great half luxury nice second
I like the way he played. In the second half he was forcing an aggressive tempo. He did a nice job. He's a great luxury to have.
certainly chew minutes playing unless
I may not play him 35 minutes unless we need to. But I certainly am not going to let him take the day off. And I'm going to chew on him if he's not playing good.
close continue leave ncaa season selected today tournament
If (the NCAA tournament teams) were selected today I think we'd be in. But there's still no guarantees. We have to continue to play well and close out the season the right way and not leave everything to chance.
against experience guys incredible knew men might playing savvy solid
That might have been the whole thing right there, the incredible experience as well as the solid play and their savvy out on the court. It was like old men playing against young guys out there. They knew what they were doing. They never got rattled. They never got shaken.
against good paying safety system understand win
I'm not paying the money. I understand the safety factor. We try, we have a good system in place, but there is only so much you can do. A win against a top-ranked team, at home, I probably would have jogged out there too.
available brings chemistry ending four guys hard positive
I'm going to look hard at the chemistry someone brings from the other four guys on the court. I still see a positive ending available to this team, but we have to do our part.
home tape time tonight watch win
I'm going to go home tonight and watch that tape one more time just to see that we did win that.
kid
I'm not going to crucify a kid for speeding.
instead pass
Instead of making a 50-50 pass in transition, we want it to be a 75-25 opportunity.
capable defending disrupt energy good guards moving stepping sure
I know their guards are good players. They are very capable of stepping up and making things happen. If we're focused, really defending and moving our feet, we can disrupt them. But we have to make sure we play at that energy level.
games guys hard knew lost played
I knew we had lost two games by not very much, but played hard doing it. I told the guys I wanted them to play hard, but I also told them to have fun.
couple happens looking older ready team
I know a couple years ago when we were there, we were kind of starry-eyed. ...We've got an older team now, and we've got a team that I don't think is going to be looking around the arena. We're going to go there hungry, we're going to go there ready to play and we'll see what happens from there.
florida marquee missing team turn win
I like our chances. I always thought all this team was missing was one big win, and we got that marquee win over Florida to turn things around.