Category: Ben Howland
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
It had already been announced that Steve Alford would sign a 10-year contract extension at New Mexico when news broke that he was leaving for UCLA. Alford hadn't yet signed the new deal, but it left those in Albuquerque obviously shocked. Alford, who played at Indiana for Bob Knight, understands ...
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
The Sweet 16 is not at a loss for great matchups, and one of those will come Friday night when top-seeded Kansas takes on No. 4 seed Michigan. Bill Self's success at Kansas is well-documented, while the Wolverines have what Self calls perhaps the best guard-line in the country, starting ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2012
Expectations were high for the UCLA Bruins, as usual, entering the college hoops season. They had a standout freshmen class, led by Shabazz Muhammad, and were ranked No. 13 in the preseason AP poll. Since then, however, Muhammad missed three games as the NCAA sorted out an eligibility issue and ...
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Monday, November 5th, 2012
Since making it to his last Final Four appearance in the 2007-2008 season, Ben Howland and his UCLA Bruins are averaging just 20 wins in their last four seasons and have made just two trips to the NCAA Tournament. At a place like UCLA that is not good enough for ...
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Friday, April 13th, 2012
When we last saw Ben Howland, the UCLA coach was coming off a season where his Bruins didn't even make the postseason and they had recently been slammed by a Sports Illustrated article that shed negative light on what Howland and the program were doing. He might not have erased ...
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Friday, March 30th, 2012
Suspensions, injuries, departures, losses and an article in Sports Illustrated that delved into it all. That's pretty much what UCLA coach Ben Howland had to deal with this past season. By season's end, Howland's team went 19-14 and didn't make the postseason.
Despite it all, Howland says in the following interview ...
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Monday, March 5th, 2012
Last week, Sports Illustrated's George Dohrmann released a story in the magazine titled, "Not The UCLA Way." In it, it discusses the downward spiral of the highly touted Bruins basketball team and the reported role that former standout-turned-dismissed-player Reeves Nelson had in it.
Nelson has fired back, hoping to restore his ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Ben Howland is in his ninth year as Head Coach at UCLA. During his tenure with the Bruins, Howland has been incredibly successful. He has a dazzling 205-96 record, has recruited numerous McDonald’s All-Americans, has sent numerous players to the pros, and at one time led the Bruins to three ...
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
People around college basketball will tell you that teams want to be playing their best basketball in February and March as opposed to November and December. That’s good news for the UCLA Bruins. After getting off to a shaky 3-4 start in their first seven games, the Bruins have rallied ...
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
John Wooden passed away at 99 years old on Friday - 99 of the best lived, most inspiring lives in the recent history of this country. I fully acknowledge that I cannot adequately capture how great of a man John Wooden was.
While that is a compliment in itself and I ...
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