Blaine Taylor
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"Blaine Taylor" is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach of the Old Dominion Monarchs basketball/Old Dominion Monarchs men's basketball team.

Taylor played as a point guard for the University of Montana from 1979 to 1981. In 1981, he was recognized as the school's most outstanding male athlete and earned the Naseby Rhinehart Award as the Most Inspirational Player. Taylor later became an assistant coach at Montana while a graduate student from 1981 to 1984 and again became an assistant to Stew Morrill from 1986 to 1991. He was promoted to head coach of the Montana_Grizzlies#Basketball/Grizzlies in 1991 and led the team to two NCAA tournament appearances through 1998. Taylor became an assistant coach under former Grizzly coach Mike Montgomery at Stanford University from 1998 to 2001. The Stanford Cardinal/Cardinal were invited to the NCAA tournament during every year of Taylor's tenure, reaching the Elite 8 in the 2001 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/2001 tournament.

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The good news is he was very lucky and he will be fine.

There's no dunking [with Jose], no jumping buildings in a single bound. He's just a good 'ole basketball player … and you have to deal with him all night long.

The game can always be analyzed a lot of different ways if you want to go to stat sheets and particular plays. But I thought both teams played really hard and caused the other to look bad at times. Both teams caused each other's low percentage. What you got, you earned.

It's ironic. What you're good at can sometimes come back at you the other way.

When you look around, it's unbelievable to me how many teams are right in the thick of things. There's a lot up for grabs. You go right back … with the summer and fall and everyone talking about how the league race will be a dandy. The real winners are the fans that follow this thing and our kids that can immerse themselves in this competition.

You hope a team gets some separation, and obviously, we hope it?s us. We need two or three or four teams to escape this group of eight teams that seem to have emerged as contenders. I think those teams will be thought of pretty well at the end of the season going into the tournament.

Wilmington is fun to play and they're to play, and invariably you have to make a lot of adjustments. You have to be very hard-nosed and determined at doing the right things. I really am happy to the way our kids responded to the opening of conference in the New Year to a very good opponent.

I thought we wore him down because he had to make so many plays for them.