Jim Calhoun Quotes on America (5 Quotes)

On paper, we seem to be a deep, big and experienced basketball team that should be ranked in the top 10 teams in America.

It's amazing that we were playing Kentucky for the first time. But we're trying to earn (recognition) as a lead program in America, and hopefully we continue to do that. It was obviously a tremendous, tremendous basketball game.

I truly believe Rudy Gay is one of the best players in America. What you saw tonight as far as points, I don't know if that's going to happen every night, but I do know he needs to get close to 18 to 20 shots a night. He's that good in my opinion.

I still think we can beat anybody in America and get to Indianapolis. And I still think we can lose to anybody along the way. But we got into a situation where we had to make plays, and we made plays.

No kid in America has come so far to be a top-20 basketball player.