I am very excited to see what Howland can do as a coach. I looked at the men's basketball schedule for 03-04 and it's loaded with a lot of tough out of conference games!!

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also congrats to Ryan Hollins helping the USA team win gold. This experience is great for him and will help him when he puts on a Bruin uniform this winter.

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Hes been a success everywhere he's gone, I saw him coach Northern Arizona University to the NCAA tourney in 97 or 98 and they lost to #2 seed Cincinatti when the Bearcats hit a three pointer with 2 seconds to go winning by 2 pts. And you saw what he did at Pitt in 3 years, I think UCLA may win the conf in the next two seasons.

I didn't even know he coached at NAU. hopefully he will have tons of success at UCLA..