Tom Collen
American college basketball has long been sustained by coaches who make their careers within university programs, working through the structures of the collegiate game. Thomas Duane Collen, born on December 21, 1953, in Lancaster, is one such figure — an American college basketball coach whose occupation has placed him within that tradition.
Collen's educational path took him through two Ohio institutions: Bowling Green State University and Miami University. That passage through two distinct university environments gave shape to his early formation, and his subsequent career as a basketball coach kept him within the world of American collegiate sport. The facts of his biography are spare but consistent — a man educated in Ohio who went on to work as a college basketball coach in the United States.
The available record does not document a particular championship or formal honor attached to Collen's name. What the record does establish is the outline of a career grounded in collegiate basketball, beginning with his education at Bowling Green State University and Miami University and extending through his work as a coach at the college level. Those two institutional affiliations, alongside his occupation, form the documented contours of his professional life.
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You work so hard to try and build this program up and the kids have worked so hard, you want to play well, you want the national media to see you play well whether you won or you lost. At the same time you know you're getting all this attention and you just hope you play well enough that you don't disappoint people.
This is a great opportunity for us. We want to see if we can play with them. We want to see if we've improved.
I really think our kids stopped believing, and that's really frustrating for me. When they get down by 15 points, we look at the scoreboard and feel sorry for ourselves.
I hope we recovered out of our three-game skid. I thought we bounced back and played pretty well against Marquette. It was an important game for us.
They just set an incredible pace, and want to blow you out in the first five minutes. If you?re not ready to run back in transition, you?re not ready for them to shoot the ball early, and they?re hot, you can find yourself in a hole really, really fast. I think you have to go in there knowing that they have a great home-court advantage, and I think you have to go in there knowing that the game is going to be intense.
It was pretty ugly. But sometimes these kinds of games, rivalry games in front of big crowds, turn into brawls. And so if you can come out on top of the brawl, you've done some pretty good things.
For 37 minutes, we deserved to win. In the last two and a half minutes we let it slip away.
For her to come back and have a big game on the national stage like she did against (Notre Dame) has to give her more confidence. And we could use 20 points out of her against the big dogs.
They're a veteran team that's well-coached. They like to pound the ball inside, but they're also a good shooting team from the perimeter, so they protect their inside game.
They have a great atmosphere there. The fans are very exuberant; they?re right on top of you. It?s very loud there. They have a great home-court advantage.