“Obviously you need good players,” Lloyd said, when asked what coaching attributes earned him the AP award so quickly in his career.
Bruce Pascoe Even as a youth soccer and little league player, Tommy Lloyd said he always looked up to his coaches, figuring one day he might be one of them.
People are also reading… Lloyd left Few and Gonzaga last April to take over the Wildcats. He then inherited — and in some cases, re-recruited — five players who would make up his starting lineup, while pulling in three key transfers. Then he mixed everyone together into a free-flowing, fan-friendly team that won the Pac-12 regular-season title by three games and earned a No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed.
Eight days after the Wildcats' season ended with a 72-60 Sweet 16 loss to Houston, Lloyd was at the Final Four as an award-winner. It was the third national coach of the year award Lloyd won in a span of four days this week, with the National Association of Basketball Coaches and United States Basketball Writers Association giving him the same honor earlier this week.“Just to see my name on a list with some of those other coaches who are legends of the game that I love, it's overwhelming,” Lloyd said. “But I also look at it like I have a responsibility to make myself and obviously my program as good as we can be.
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