Benjamin Clark Howland was born on May 28,1957 and is an American college basketball coach who most recently served as the men's head coach at Mississippi State University from to 2015 to 2022.
18 Facts About Ben Howland
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Ben Howland served as the head men's basketball coach at Northern Arizona University from 1994 to 1999, the University of Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2003, and the University of California, Los Angeles from 2003 to 2013.
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Ben Howland is one of the few NCAA Division I coaches to take four teams to the NCAA tournament.
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Ben Howland earned a bachelor's degree in physical education at Weber State and a master's degree in administration at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
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Ben Howland wanted to be a coach since his teenage years living in Santa Barbara.
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At Gonzaga, one of Ben Howland's duties was to guard future basketball Hall of Famer John Stockton in practice.
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Ben Howland then led the Lumberjacks to the Big Sky tournament Championship the following year, sending them to the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history.
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Ben Howland later ended up replacing Ralph Willard at the University of Pittsburgh, a member of the Big East Conference.
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Ben Howland took Pitt to three straight Big East Championship games, winning the 2003 tournament title, the first in school history.
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However, Ben Howland came into a program at the bottom of the Pac-10 with a roster not suited to his style.
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Ben Howland produced a top tier recruiting class from athletes in southern California that fit his Big East style.
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The article stated that Ben Howland looked the other way and did not discipline Nelson for over two years.
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In 2009, Ben Howland pulled a scholarship offer to Kendall Williams, who had verbally committed to attend UCLA in 2010.
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Several Amateur Athletic Union coaches in Southern California thought that Ben Howland delayed notifying Williams to deter other Pac-12 Conference coaches from pursuing him.
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Ben Howland went to a new up-tempo offense, and the Bruins won the Pac-12 regular-season title.
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On March 24,2015, Ben Howland was hired as the 20th head coach at Mississippi State University, replacing Rick Ray.
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On March 17,2022, Mississippi State announced that Ben Howland had been fired.
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Ben Howland has coached a number of players who later played professionally in the National Basketball Association.