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
Well, I tried to guard him. That's the key. We played mostly half-court, so it was easier to hold, grab and foul as opposed to when you've got Johnny between the top of the keys. Once in a while when that happened, it was over for me.
We'll work on our foul shooting, I promise you.
Typically if we get out-boarded by nine and shoot 5-of-13 from the foul line and allow someone to shoot 61 percent in the first half, we are not going to win. We gutted it out, found a way.
If we make our foul shots, it's probably not as tight.
We will practice our foul shots, I promise you that.
The bottom line is if we make our foul shots, it doesn't come down to Steele taking a 3-point shot at the end.
The bottom line is, we make those foul shots, Steele doesn't have that shot down the stretch.
I'm the foul shooting coach, so blame me. We'll get better. I promise.
I thought they were terrific. They did an outstanding job of dealing with our press. We were trying real hard.
Last time I checked, Larry Brown started in college, for example, and he might be one of the top coaches.
I saw him at Nike camp. He played hard. He was under the radar.
I see it as a momentum thing all the way. We're going to feed on that win. We're going to feed on that emotion.
We had lost two straight games, and we needed this one. There was not even a remote thought of looking past this team.
Our team is definitely playing its best basketball right now. If you look over the course of the last eight games, we've really been playing great defensive team basketball.