We want you from high school. We want you to graduate. Recent years have seen an occasional Wildcat leave Olson's program a year early. Mike Bibby left after his sophomore year for the professional ranks. But Olson sticks by his guns and even implements the issue of character into his recruiting.
Good kids attract other good kids.
Since his days as a star basketball player at Grand Forks Central High School, Olson has been a success. Stints at the high school and college level landed him the head coaching position at the University of Iowa, where he led the Hawkeyes to a Final Four appearance, before jumping to Arizona. Olson led the 1997 Wildcats to the NCAA championship. From 1987 through 1997, Arizona had more wins than any other program in NCAA Division I. Dale Brown Dale Brown is a coach ahead of his time. Contemporary collegiate athletics are often marred by scandals, rules violations and NCAA-imposed sanctions.