The Red Raiders have become an NCAA tournament wrecking ball on defense, with locker-room energy to match. Next up: perhaps the nation’s best offense.
By Chuck Culpepper Chuck Culpepper Reporter who covers national college football, college basketball, tennis, golf and international sports. Email Bio Follow March 29 at 10:10 PM ANAHEIM, Calif. — It has come to the attention of the nation’s college basketball intellectuals that vagabond coach Chris Beard is not only good but damned good. Come Saturday here in the arena where the Ducks skate, there will come another test of just how damned good.
Many people have hired Beard, so graduate transfer Tariq Owens, native of Maryland and formerly of St. John’s, agrees that he, too, with his degree in sports management, would hire Beard. In the category of what makes Beard good, then, his untold work amid a coaching field full of untold work keeps coming up.
In the category of defense owing largely to toil, all this would serve as further evidence. Here’s a rundown: In the 2018 NCAA tournament, first-round victim Stephen F. Austin got 60 points, second-round victim Florida got 66, and Sweet 16 victim Purdue got 65 before Texas Tech yielded to eventual national champion Villanova, 71-59, in the East Region final.
“It’s indescribable, honestly,” he said. “We’re tough. We’re long. We’re active. We never give up on plays. We have energy guys. We do it from our starters to our bench players. We’re just deep. We contest shots. We make it very hard for your best player to score. We keep the ball out of the middle. We try to have active hands and help whenever the ball gets to the middle. We don’t let passes go middle, mainly. If it gets in the post, we, like, collapse, and fan out to shooters.
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