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 saw him at Nike camp. He played hard. He was under the radar.
Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.
If that's not a very good team we just played then I don't know what is. We feel very, very fortunate to move to the next round.
The last time I checked, we were one of two schools ... that had played against five top 50 teams in the country. The RPI that they're using for the NCAA tournament is largely based on strength of schedule and we were fourth out of 330 teams, so we've absolutely been tested.
They played really, really hard. I have confidence in our guys one through 10.
Our defense is what kept us in the game. I thought Oregon played very good defense as well. Somehow we hung around because we were playing good defense, playing every possession really tough.
Arizona has played the toughest schedule by far in our conference, playing some of the top teams in the country. (Olson) had done a good job of what works best.
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.