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
I laugh at some of these commentators who say they are not a good defensive team. They hold opponents to 43 percent from the field.
That's a very important win we got tonight. It's a credit for these kids to handle any adversity.
This was a great gut-check win for our team, our program. To go through all that and have to go to overtime and to gut it out, it's a testament to these kids' character.
This will be unbelievably hard on everyone, even though, you know, religiously, we all understand that this is a celebration day of her life. But it's too short a life as far as we're all concerned.
You know how hard it is during finals to get your mind right because you're so exhausted from studying. At practice, I'm sure guys are going to have a little mental fatigue from staying up all night cramming.
Who we start Thursday (at center) will be based solely on practice the next two days. It'll be based on rebounds, who sets the best screens and blocks.
We've played some very good teams this year. And I'm very pleased with how our team has responded to all the adversity. If we get everybody healthy, I think we have a chance to be an outstanding team.
We came out and felt like we got sped up by their defense.
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.
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.
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.