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
He's a great kid and a great competitor. He's going to bounce back and be great in the NCAA Tournament. We need to beat Arizona, but it's hard to beat a good team like Arizona three times. They've improved since we've last seen them.
My biggest thing with him is he would never take any time off. He was sneaking in the gym. We got beat by West Virginia and all of a sudden he's back in the gym that night shooting for two hours. It's actually counter-productive when you wear your body out that much. It's like a marathon runner getting ready to run a marathon by running five marathons the day before he's going to run the marathon.
I'm glad we got that win. That's a tough, hard-nosed team that came in determined to beat us on our home court. We were fortunate to come away with a victory.
It's hard to beat a team three times. They're improved.
I feel very bad that Hassan is not here. Hassan Adams is a great kid, a great competitor, and he's going to really bounce back and do great in the NCAA tournament. But we need to beat Arizona. It's hard to beat a good team like Arizona three times. So it's going to be a big challenge for us to come out and have success.
Jordan is a perfectionist, so everything that doesn't go right he wears on his sleeve.
Good, because we'd like to have a tournament with all Pac-10 teams advancing far into the tournament.
This gives us the opportunity to feed off this.
I don't feel any of the shadow. I know who I am. I'm proud to be the one carrying the torch at this time.
I thought they were terrific. They did an outstanding job of dealing with our press. We were trying real hard.
He didn't want to go. Sounds like Coach. His family made him do it. He's going to be fine, based on all the information we have.
His No. 1 attribute that makes him great is his toughness, competitiveness and his pride. He is unique.
His season may be over. If so, we will fight to get him another year.
He's a great player. He'll be playing in the NBA whenever he leaves college.