Almost all coaches realize at the college level that it's an important part of the game. If you're not utilizing it at both ends of the floor, you're not going to be successful. It has probably been the greatest change as far as rules are concerned. |
Can you imagine the difference in (power teams) now that allows a team like George Mason to do this? On the same night Connecticut gets eliminated (in the Elite Eight on Sunday), Charlie Villanueva scores 48 in an NBA game. You know what year he would be at Connecticut? A junior. . . . It is all creating an overall balance. Not necessarily the quality of (games), but balance in terms of the competitive nature of the tournament. |
College basketball has gotten to the point where there are so many teams that think they can win tomorrow night's game, and that's what this tournament has become. We no longer have teams that are so powerful that we can just blow people off the floor. So you got contrasting styles, different ways to win games. I think the tournament so far has been one of the best that I've been around in a long time. |
He showed me some things, in terms of his ability to handle the ball. He came up big-time, like the kind of player that can take over a game. That surprised me. |
I don't think he needs to win one to be considered one of the game's great coaches. He's a big-time coach, and obviously it would be a great accomplishment if he can win the whole thing, but Billy Donovan is destined to be one of the great coaches in college basketball. |
I'd expect if they face each other it would be quite a basketball game. |
If he misses, Kentucky can get that rebound and get a shot. |
It was a hell of a tournament. It gave credibility to the league. No outside team ever won it. |
Let me take you back to 1979. |
Nobody is going to be bothered by that, at least the person who's hired won't be. If somebody is bothered by that, he shouldn't be a candidate anyway. You've got to be more competitive than that. |
The colleges are so close to each other, and the alumni all work with each other so closely. So if one guy gets too strong, they demand that the other one get moving. The competition level is tremendous. Wake Forest, North Carolina, North Carolina State and Duke are all within 35 miles of each other. |
The concept of the great players and the great teams, because more kids are leaving early or going straight to the NBA, is not what it used to be. But is has made more teams be successful. It is more fun now because of the unknown. You don't know what is going to happen. |
There is no formula. The uncertainty is what makes this Tournament so great. |
They proved what they can do. So my opinion is useless. If every team had lost, does that mean those teams can't play? No. |
They went in a little down spell in 2000. So if history goes back to 2000, this is a scenario that does make sense. But the theory that is jumping on a brand new bandwagon, it's just not there. |