Steve Alford
Steve Alford
Stephen Todd Alfordis an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth23 November 1964
CityFranklin, IN
CountryUnited States of America
finish five last special thus
Hopefully, they can finish here during the last five weeks. Because it's been a special year, thus far.
enjoy enjoyed glad last ncaa players sure
I'm glad we got a day for the players to enjoy what they did last weekend. We made sure they enjoyed it. But this (the NCAA tournament) is what you play for.
basketball last tougher
It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.
average expect good night
If we don't play well, we'll get beat. We're just not good enough to have an average to below-average night and expect to win.
experience happen helps hope upsets veteran
A lot of times, those upsets happen when you don't have a veteran team. We've got to hope that experience helps us.
anybody basketball great guys history illinois players says
You've got two guys that have probably done more for Illinois basketball than anybody in the history of the program. That says a lot, because there have been some great players here.
bottom change five including league longer might talking teams top weeks
There's a lot that can change in five games, including the standings. Two weeks from now we might be talking about teams at the bottom of our league no longer at the bottom and teams at the top of the league no longer at the top.
family glad playing whatever
I'm just glad we're not playing in the Family Friends Arena, or whatever that thing is called.
dan dangerous extremely guys job keeping playing stretch ten together tremendous
Dan has done a tremendous job keeping his guys together and playing extremely hard. They're going to be very dangerous down the stretch and, in particular, the Big Ten tournament.
maybe parity scheduling takes
It's probably going to be one of those years where scheduling has a lot to do with it. Who you play twice, who you play only once and where that takes place - these are all going to play an instrumental role, maybe more than in years past, just because of the parity that we have.
goes opens percent
It goes without being said how important he is to our offense. Him being 100 percent opens things up for us defensively.
came couple finish glass good half hurt inability leads offensive
I thought we had a couple of good leads in each half and we didn't finish either. It came down to our inability to keep them off the offensive glass and turnovers. That really hurt us.
aspects financial
We try to take the financial aspects out of the injury,
game
This was a big game in a lot of ways.