Dick Bennett
Dick Bennett
Richard A. "Dick" Bennettis an American college basketball coach who is best known for building the Wisconsin-Green Bay Phoenix men's basketball program into a mid-major power and revitalizing the Wisconsin Badgers basketball program. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he is the father of current Virginia Cavaliers head coach Tony Bennett and current Northern Illinois women's basketball head coach Kathi Bennett...
arizona basketball beaten earned game last meant played slowly state team toughness worst
We earned last place. The team slowly eroded, and we played our worst basketball at the end of the season. The game meant something to Arizona State. They wanted it, and we didn't. We don't have the toughness to play 40 minutes, and Arizona State could have beaten us by 40.
bit dig half perfectly played
You're always going to have mistakes. You're not going to play perfectly down the stretch, when everything has to work. You know there are going to be some miscues. We just haven't played solidly in the first half and we've had to dig out of that. ... It's just a bit too much for us.
basketball looked miserable played prove shooting team throwing trying
We played miserable basketball in the first half. We looked like a team trying to prove it could be a 94-foot (end-to-end) team -- throwing one-handed passes, shooting on the fly.
lost played playing totally
He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.
best clearly played second team
They were clearly the better team -- one of the best we've played -- in that second game.
against dominated foster good happened happens hopes hurt knew ok order oregon played reality
I think reality has set in. We knew we had to play well in order to foster those hopes. We played OK against Oregon State, and we just got dominated by Oregon. It hurt to play like that. That's what happens when you are not a good team. Our hopes were higher, but what has happened was not unexpected.
good grow maybe next perhaps played poor replace seniors sometime team three
You can't automatically replace three seniors with three sophomores and say you're better. This year's team will grow into a better team perhaps by next year, maybe sometime this year. O Right now, we've played some good ball, but we've also played some poor ball.
rock
I think Batista's the rock on that team.
ball cost inability rebound
I think it's the inability to rebound the ball that really cost us the game.
agreed effort last major running start talked trying turn wins
We've made it clear, actually agreed as a group, that we would like to make a major effort to turn things around this time. We talked about trying to get a running start last week. We're not going talk about wins and losses.
handle inside people simply stanford unable
Stanford used their inside people well. The big kid, we were simply unable to handle him.
aggressive assistant bulldog carried coach coaching college denver division fit great heck integral landed matt middle players recruiting ties turned west
Matt is a great fit for our staff. He is a young aggressive assistant coach who has been at two Division I universities that have turned around with his recruiting and coaching abilities. He was an integral part of the players landed at Denver and Middle Tennessee. He was a heck of a player in college who was a bulldog and he carried that into his coaching career. He has recruiting ties in the Northwest, West and Midwest.
happy
I was happy we battled and showed a little grit.
earn execution half second timing
UCLA's execution in the first half was a thing of beauty. Their screens, their cuts, their timing was perfect. In the second half, we made them earn it.