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...
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It was just an incredible game fought by two teams that gave it everything they had. I don't know if the teams could have gone another minute.
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It was just an incredible game fought by two teams who gave it everything they possibly had. I just thought it was an incredible display of what competition is all about.
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It was an incredible game fought by two teams who gave everything they possibly could. I don't know if either team could have gone another minute.
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They gave us a good old-fashioned butt-whipping. We were god-awful. For the first time, I'm wondering if a couple of our kids are as good as they're supposed to be.
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I am so proud of my kids and the way we took every shot that Kentucky gave us. But I don't find it unusual for Kentucky, with its incredible history and a great coach like Tubby, to turn it into that kind of game.
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I am so proud of my kids and the way we took every shot that Kentucky gave us. We're trying to earn our ropes as an elite program and we're still trying to do that.
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They're a good basketball team. They're going to be very tough out in their league. We gave up 24 points in a very short period of time.
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They gave us a tremendous shot. We withstood it and stood up to it. I couldn't prouder of my basketball team.
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They shocked us into such a state that I witnessed our poorest offensive effort in my 20 years at Connecticut. Albany gave us everything they had. I hugged (Albany coach) Will Brown after the game and I don't know Will Brown. I told him that, 'Your guys are special.' And they were.
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My understanding is the athletic director is going to now, hopefully, put it on the front burner this year. In my personal opinion, they were going to fix football before they fixed basketball. I know a couple of the people are basketball people who gave money to football and that's fine. They gave money to the university.
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Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..
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He gave us that legitimate guard that I've been talking about that nobody wants to hear.
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They gave us fits. I don't think we shot well, but we played well.
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It was the worst mistake he ever made. That was the game we were down by 25 and I turned to him every play and blamed him on it.