Ben Braun
Ben Braun
Benjamin Abraham Braunis a men's college basketball coach. He is the former coach at Rice University, where he spent eight seasons. Previously, Braun spent 12 years with the California Golden Bears program and 11 years at Eastern Michigan University. He has won the most games of any coach in Eastern Michigan's history...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth25 November 1953
chemistry coaches goal people priority team
Young people do what they see. It has to be a priority from the coaches down to the players. Team chemistry comes from having the same goal and same agenda.
lighting plays scout team
This is something he's done in practice. He plays on the scout team and he's lighting us up.
bigger learn
That's just disappointing because we had opportunities. We have to learn from this game. This is kind of a rerun in the rebounding department. To me it's one of the bigger indicators we have.
defense game good
And their defense has not been spotty. It's been good game to game.
basket came few hard judgments
As hard as Leon was working, I thought he had opportunities to go after the rim a few times, and we came away with no basket and a foul. In my opinion, there were some questionable judgments in those situations.
appearance game knew
This game we knew was not about appearance or style. It was about grit.
healthy major
We're healthy this time, that's the major difference.
ask harder played players
Our players were hungry. I can't ask our players to go out and play harder than they played today.
against dangerous facing game perspective players
Our players have the game in perspective. We know what we're up against ? and we're facing a very dangerous team.
catch remember tables teams turn
We have to turn the tables on the pressure. We have to remember the other teams have to catch us.
deserve
I'll say it-I think we deserve to be in the tournament.
alex basketball cal extend great harder nobody pleased works
I'm pleased that we were able to extend a scholarship to Alex for this season. Nobody works any harder than Alex, and he is a great representative of a Cal basketball student-athlete.
beat chris felt somebody
If somebody was going to beat us in that situation, it wasn't going to be Chris Hernandez. We felt we couldn't let him do it.
affects faith fatigue given knock sets shots
I have probably given him too many minutes. Sometimes fatigue sets in, and the first thing it affects is your shot. I have faith he will knock some of those shots down.