“We've got to get everybody to sacrifice, be on same page, be a team.”

American college basketball coach

Ben Howland is an American college basketball coach. He was born in 1957 and is known for leading several Division I programs, including Northern Arizona, Pittsburgh, UCLA, and Mississippi State. Howland served as head coach at Northern Arizona from 1994 to 1999, at Pittsburgh from 1999 to 2003, at UCLA from 2003 to 2013, and at Mississippi State from 2015 to 2022. He became the first men's coach in modern college basketball history to be fired soon after winning an outright power-conference title, and he is among the few NCAA Division I coaches to have taken four teams to the NCAA tournament.