The BIAH Quotables

This a new feature we are trying out here at BIAH this season. Throughout the week, we are going to post some notable quotes or excerpts that show up in our google reader. Stupid people say stupid things 24 hours a day, and being somehow associated with the college hoops landscape does not preclude that fact. That said, we will not limit our quotables to the simple and idiotic, as the insightful and intelligent will also be highlighted. Feel free to pass along any quotables you stumble across to contactbiah@gmail.com or @ballinisahabit.


Coach Calipari has easily become the best interviewee of the year thus far. I want to personally thank him for making my job here at The BIAH Quotables alot easier. This time around, Coach Cal addresses the ammount of stress his young team forced put him through during their instant classic against UConn at MSG:

I'm going to look like Dick Vitale when this season's over or I'll be as gray as Bobby Cremins. We rode John Wall at the end of the game.

Calipari's mix of dry sarcasm and candidiness(sp?) is making him a interview superstar:

We drank the poison in the first half and listened to all the hype about John Wall and our players. We go up 12-0 and they're acting like we won the national championship, and then Connecticut makes a run as all well-coached teams do, and it's on.

It doesn't take a rocket scientisit to figure out that Jim Calhoun and John Calipari arent friends. Adam Zagoria helped us out by detailing their not so smooth relationship:

John came in from Moon Township in Pennsylvania and he said that UMass was the King of New England, that their program was King of New England. He didn't even know what 'chowda' was with an 'a.' You've got to know what clam chowder is before you start saying that you're the king. Especially from a guy from South Boston, it's pretty tough for a guy to say that.

UW-Green Bay had the upset of the week, knocking off newly-minted top 25 Wisconsin. Head coach Tom Kowalczyk used a bit of NCAAlgebra to start off the press conference:

First thing's first. Does that mean we're better than Duke?

Ahh yes, the ole' "If team A beats fifth ranked team B, and team C beats team A, then team C is therefore better than fifth-ranked team B." I love word problems.

Stanley Robinson had some thoughts on DeMarcus Cousins prior to their date in the Garden:

"He's so cocky," Robinson said of Cousins. "He's just too cocky for his own good. I'm just ready to play him. He's a freshman, so I'm ready to play him."