Jim Calhoun
Jim Calhoun
James A. Calhoun is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships, played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships. With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of...
awful complaints-and-complaining games
This is one of those games where I don't have an awful lot of complaints.
appear good stepped team
This is our team and it's a pretty good one. When Rudy didn't play well, Denham stepped up. There were other guys, too. We appear to be a pretty good team with a lot of answers.
fact inspired ncaa scared teams
Some teams play loose, and better than what they have. They were never scared off by the NCAA Tournament; in fact they were inspired by it.
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Some teams in their position are scared by the NCAA tournament. They were inspired by it.
actions coaches good
Coaches all understand. Coaches aren't responsible for the actions of their players, but if you're a good coach you feel very responsible for their actions.
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As a friend and as a colleague, it's only fitting that we go in together. ... The way he's maintained excellence through all those years, Jim's had an incredible run.
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The bottom line is that I'd rather let the kids play on. Kids are going to get emotional in a game like that and I don't think Brandon or Rudy were trying to do anything more. It was such an incredibly intense game, they just kind of got into each other a little bit. They were not doing anything.
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The bottom line is, we?re looking forward to having Steve come here. But I?m sure Steve would like to come here with more experience.
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Back in 1990, the (league) championship was a mad, mad celebration. It never affected that team because it was a magical year. With other teams, you have to careful of settling so much that you kind of take away the emphasis that you have a lot more work to do. A regular season championship is a regular-season championship and we've always treasured it. It's important to us. Is it the most important thing? No.
final four teams
That's where we are right now. We could have new teams in the Final Four every year.
game games head league next ourselves ready three
That's what this game is all about, getting ourselves ready for the next three games and then head on into our league games.
ask people
That's how I ask people to do things.
basketball last minutes
Albany was magnificent for 30 minutes. We were equally, if not better or more magnificent, the last 10 minutes of the basketball game.
coach gave guys single
Albany gave us every single thing they had. I hugged Coach Brown, who I don't even know, and said to him very simply, 'You guys are special.' And they were special.