Jim Calhoun
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| Sport(s) | Basketball |
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| Biographical details | |
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May 10, 1942 Braintree, Massachusetts |
| Playing career | |
| 1965–1968 | American International |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1972–1986 | Northeastern |
| 1986–2012 | Connecticut |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 873–380 (.697) |
| Tournaments | 50–19 (NCAA) |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| 3× NCAA Division I Tournament Championships (1999, 2004, 2011) NIT championship (1988) 4× NCAA Regional Championships – Final Four (1999, 2004, 2009, 2011) 7× Big East Tournament championships (1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2011) 10× Big East regular season championships (1990, 1994–1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006) |
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| Awards | |
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AP College Coach of the Year (1990) America East Coach of the Year (1986) 4x Big East Coach of the Year (1990, 1994, 1996, 1998) John R. Wooden Award Legends of Coaching Award (2005) |
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2005 (profile) |
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College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 |
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James A. Calhoun (born May 10, 1942) is the former head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team. His teams won three NCAA national championships (1999, 2004, 2011), played in four Final Fours (most recently in 2011), won the 1988 NIT title, and seven Big East tournament championships (1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2011). With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title. He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his career with 873 victories, ranking 12th all-time as of Feb. 2015. Calhoun is one of only five coaches in NCAA Division I history to win three or more championships and is widely considered one of the greatest coaches of all time. In 2005, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
A self-described Irish Catholic, Calhoun was born and raised in Braintree, Massachusetts, where he was a standout on the basketball, football, and baseball teams at Braintree High School. After his father died of a heart attack when Calhoun was 15, he was left to watch over his large family that included five siblings.
Although he received a basketball scholarship to Lowell State, he only attended the school for three months after which he returned home to help support his mother and siblings. He worked as a granite cutter, headstone engraver, scrapyard worker, shampoo factory worker, and gravedigger.
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