Dusty May, Tommy Lloyd are the coolest coaches in college basketball
Dusty May and Tommy Lloyd embody the new-age college basketball coach who inspires trust, not fear. They meet in a heavyweight Final Four semifinal.
The Michigan-Arizona Final Four national semifinal is a sexy heavyweight matchup this Saturday in Indianapolis. The Wolverines and Wildcats have been two of the three best college basketball teams all season long, and with Duke out of the picture, Saturday's meeting will produce a team favored to win the national championship on Monday night, April 6. Dusty May and Tommy Lloyd form one part of this larger clash.
It's no accident Michigan and Arizona have gotten this far. Their coaches are setting the standard in the industry. Tommy Lloyd at halftime against Purdue Tommy Lloyd did not take credit for Arizona's second-half rally against Purdue in the Elite Eight.
He said the players needed to figure things out . Player empowerment is a big thing for Tommy Lloyd, and it paid off. Anti-Bobby Knight Bobby Knight was, is, and always will be a great Hall of Fame coach.
Nothing about his personality or his bitterness in later life will change that. However, Bobby Knight simply did not coach the way Tommy Lloyd does. That doesn't make Knight wrong.
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