Nolan Richardson
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"Nolan Richardson, Jr." is an American basketball head coach, who was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008 and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014. He has coached teams to winning a Division I (NCAA)/Division I Basketball National Championship, an National Invitation Tournament/NIT championship, and a Junior College National Championship. Richardson is the only coach to win all three championships. He previously coached college basketball at the University of Tulsa and the University of Arkansas where he led the Razorbacks to the 1994 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/NCAA title in 1994. Richardson coached the Arkansas team to a second-place finish in the NCAA Tournament in 1995. Nolan Richardson's teams during his 22 seasons of coaching in NCAA Division I, made a post season tournament appearance 20 times (16 NCAA, 4 NIT).

On October 20, 2009, Richardson was named head coach of Women's National Basketball Association's Tulsa Shock, formerly known as the Detroit Shock, a position he held until July 8, 2011. Most recently he coached the Mexico national basketball team/Mexican National Team.

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They've already asked me to come back to Panama, ... I had an old fan from Arkansas call me this weekend and ask me if my appetite (to coach) was wet again after this. I told him that my appetite for that was always wet ... it's just ya'll (in Arkansas) put a stop to it for a while.

I can't believe it, ... The president of Panama told me, 'You have no idea what you've done for our country.' He said people were jumping in the streets.

I hope I never have to watch that Pop Wright shoot like that again.

They programmed him so hard. God, they wanted him to get to that NBA.

The U.S. beat us pretty good the first game, but that's partly because we flew in at 3 a.m. the night before we played.

I'm interested in a major college coaching job, period, ... I have an agent who's working on finding me a job either in college or in the professional ranks. I said years ago that I want to win another national championship, and the only way I can do that is to be coaching.

Panama played with their heart. That's why we won, ... Today, my players understood the system I've been trying to teach them.

I'm very happy, because we played very well and we qualified (for FIBA World Championship 2006).

I believe very much in winning with defence and I try to get my players to compete hard on defence to win the games.