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
Coach is always there at the home games, sitting behind our bench. What was accomplished by John R. Wooden . . . will never, ever be seen again at the college level. They won 38 straight NCAA (Tournament) games in a row at one point . . .
Coach is always there at the home games, sitting behind the bench. He's the greatest coach in the history of college basketball.
Coach watches every game. I knew that and embraced it. He's the greatest coach in the history of basketball. What he did in college basketball will never be repeated. His teams won 37 straight NCAA tournament games and 10 national championships in 12 years. You know how everyone wants to be like Mike -- Michael Jordan -- as a player? Every coach wants to be like John. So I don't feel a shadow. I embrace it.
Defense is what wins games on the road.
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.
I saw him at Nike camp. He played hard. He was under the radar.