Steve Alford
FameRank: 6

"As player:"

*NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship/NCAA champion

*2× Consensus first-team NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans/All-American (1986 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans/1986–1987 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans/1987)

*3× first-team All-Big Ten Conference/Big Ten (1985–1987)

*Chicago Tribune Silver Basketball/Big Ten MVP (1987)

*Indiana Mr. Basketball (1983)

"As coach:"

*2× Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament/MWC Tournament champion (2012 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament/2012–2013 Mountain West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament/2013)

*4× Mountain West Conference/MWC regular season champion (2009–2010, 2012–2013)

*2× Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament/Big Ten Tournament champion (2001 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament/2001, 2006 Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament/2006)

*2× Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference/Heartland Conference champion (1994–1995)

* Pacific-12 Conference/Pac-12 Tournament Championship (2014)

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He's looked like that the last two days in practice.

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They're hard to prepare for because they are potent inside and out. They are pressure oriented defensively. So we've got to do a good job of getting open and handling the ball.

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Ohio State is five points away from being undefeated and a top?five team.

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This is a great start. They (players) have earned it. But there is a lot that can happen in February. We've got to make sure we stay healthy and keep getting better.

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I think some people would say the numbers are the same. But with the casinos, we're fighting a trend and everyone else is going down, ... The fact is, we're not going down. Our people do go to the casinos, but they don't go up there every day.

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We know how difficult the first eight (games) were in this league. Now the tension, the pressure, the battles that are going to happen in the next eight probably are going to intensify.

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It's probably going to be one of those years where scheduling has a lot to do with it. Who you play twice, who you play only once and where that takes place - these are all going to play an instrumental role, maybe more than in years past, just because of the parity that we have.

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Hopefully, they can finish here during the last five weeks. Because it's been a special year, thus far.

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I thought we were going to be pretty good. And I always thought Michigan, with everybody healthy and coming back would be tough. I don't think it's a surprise at all that the two of us are at the top of the league.

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