"Ray Giacoletti" is the College Basketball/men's basketball coach (sport)/coach at Drake University. He played collegiate basketball at Minot State University in North Dakota from 1980–1984, where he was a four-year letterman and a team captain for two seasons. He received his degree in physical education in 1985.

Giacoletti was previously the head coach at North Dakota State University, Eastern Washington University, and the University of Utah. At Utah, he was a finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award in 2005, he was also named the 2005 Playboy National Coach of the Year.

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We really need to work on the things that we can control. It all starts defensively. We can control our effort, our talking and our ability to understand what we are trying to do out there. We need to just get back to the basics.

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We had to do something different the second half because we had to catch up and score. We got around to being more aggressive and having the game start going our way.

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I think it's a really good game for us. Other than the fact Dick Bennett can really coach. I'm very impressed.

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I think (sophomore guard) Chris Grant has done a very good job. His assist-to-turnover ratio is best on the team, and he does the little things that we need right now. We don't need to mess with that.

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He is making it easy for Luke Nevill. Luke has a mentor in front of him who he competes against in practice. Luke is not out on an island by himself.

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I think he has a chance to be really good. I was probably more impressed in person than I was on tape. He's explosive, and he really plays with a high energy and kind of a chip on his shoulder, which you have to on that post spot. I think he has a great future.

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They like to get out and double and get out and pressure us full court. We need to execute our press offense and try to be strong with it (the ball). We have seen a lot of it now. Our press offense should be something that we understand where we need to go and what we need to do.

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I think San Diego State is obviously head and shoulders above everybody else with their experience. And after that, I think it is wide open.

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They do something different than people see in the course of the year. They switch one through five. It makes you stop and not attack, but you have to be in attack mode and penetrate the middle of that thing. Teams that have been successful with penetration have had success.

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