Ben Howland
Ben Howland
Benjamin Clark Howlandis an American college basketball coach for the Mississippi State Bulldogs and former player. He served as the head men's basketball coach at Northern Arizona University from 1994 to 1999, the University of Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2003, and the University of California, Los Angelesfrom 2003 to 2013. Howland became the first men's coach in modern college basketball history to be fired shortly after winning an outright power-conference title. He is one of the few NCAA Division I...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth28 May 1957
CityLebanon, OR
We were really sensitive to him shooting threes.
We have great kids and they're all on the same page about winning and getting the program back to the highest level.
We can play any way you want to play. Florida wants to get up and down, they're going to try to press us, they're going to try to create a tempo that's up and down. That's great.
We hit some tough shots. It was a night of tough shots.
We feel very, very fortunate to move on to the next round.
We went through a lot of adversity earlier this year with injuries and we played a lot of people. I have complete confidence in our entire team.
We had autograph seekers knocking on our players' doors at midnight the night before we played Memphis .
Thomas is the Shawn Marion of college basketball. And Shawn Marion is the greatest athlete in all of the NBA.
To me, the image of L.A. is hard-working, good people, who play together and are tough. (They) just happen to live in the greatest place in the world.
We're playing our best basketball of the season by far right now. We're improving, we're getting better.
We're playing our best basketball of the year by far.
This year has been exceptional in that we've had so many injuries, more so than in any other year.
Those kids were connected at birth as far as I'm concerned. I just happened to be the coach that was lucky enough to get them to come.
To hold him to 20 is a minor miracle.