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
believe chance defend defensive great guys
When you defend you have a chance. I've said it, I've said it, and I've said it. We have a chance and its great to see our guys believe on the defensive end.
dominant team
They've been the most dominant team in our league.
appearance game knew
This game we knew was not about appearance or style. It was about grit.
conference far game losing overtime perspective puts team
I don't think we should get penalized for losing an overtime game to (the conference champions). I think that game puts in perspective how far this team has come this season.
judgment
I thought there was some questionable judgment in those situations.
time
That was probably the only time we made consecutive mistakes.
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.
dream love player position team
That is what you dream of as a player and a coach. You love to be in that position and our team is in that position.
durable gotten maybe playing solid thursday
Leon has gotten stronger. He was kind of up and down, to where he'd have a solid Thursday and maybe not a solid Saturday. Now he's durable and he's been playing under a lot of duress.
lighting plays scout team
This is something he's done in practice. He plays on the scout team and he's lighting us up.
roy took
Roy took them over the hump. He put them on his back.
gives hard hard-work positive reward stand team time towards trip work
We've put in a lot of hard work and this is our reward now to see where we stand as a team. This trip gives us more time to solidify our team and work towards a positive direction.
exercises guys value
Those guys now know the value of being vocal. We've had team-building exercises set up some of those things.
rebound stick
We just need to stick to our principles. As long as we rebound and play defense, we'll be alright.