Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Introduction: Hopefully, When It's All Said and Done, You'll Say, "He's Pretty Good" | |
Building a Program from Scratch | |
I Don't Want My Managers to Have to Clean Up Puke | |
We Need a Couple of Guys to Get Us through the Rest of the Season | |
You've Got to Learn How to Win | |
The Most Important Recruit in UConn Basketball History | |
We Weren't Just a Gnat Anymore | |
Dominant but not Great Enough | |
I Know It Sounds Crazy, But I Never Thought We Were Going To Lose | |
Oh, UConn, That's the Place Where They Made the Buzzer-Beater | |
I Hope People Took Some Polaroids Tonight | |
Calhoun Taught Me Everything | |
He's Going to Be a Special, Special Player | |
Ray Allen, One of the Greatest | |
National Champions | |
You Learn from Losses, but after You Get Three or Four, the Learning Stops and the Misery Starts | |
The Kid Comes with a Bag of Tricks | |
We're Having a Special Season | |
This One's for Joe | |
We Shocked the World! | |
I Wanted to Play for a Tough Coach, and He's One of the Toughest | |
If Maryland Is Number One in the Country, Connecticut Is Right Beside Them | |
We're Connecticut. We're Not Some Rinky-Dink Team | |
Emeka Okafor Comes along Once in a Lifetime | |
Mike, Over the Years When We've Seen Teams Collapse . . . Maybe That's a Bad Word | |
Antiheroes | |
I'm Just a Very Blessed Individual, Lucky to Be Here in Front of You Alive | |
Calhoun Is Feared, but He Is Not Respected | |
That Team Should Have Won the National Championship | |
It Won't Happen Again | |
That's Why He's in the Hall of Fame | |
Not a Dime Back | |
Josh Nochimson, the Team's Manager and Rip's Friend, Became the Unofficial Go-Between | |
I Don't Get Defeated | |
Resilience | |
From Maui . . . | |
to Mediocrity . . . | |
to Manhattan . . . | |
to Monday | |
Epilogue: Best Program Builder of All Time and Best Coach of His Generation | |
Appendixes: Standout Games and Players of the Calhoun Era | |
Year-to-Year Team Records and Game Results of the Calhoun Era | |
Notes and Sources | |
Index | |
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