Word: man-to-man
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...Indiana notched a perfect 32-0 record and won the N.C.A.A. championship. At 40, he is the youngest coach ever to win 300 games. Knight's Indiana teams are noted for their overpowering defense, which disdains the niceties of the zone in favor of aggressively tenacious man-to-man coverage. It is nose-to-nose confrontation when the Hoosiers take the court to fulfill their coach's playing philosophy: "Our ultimate objective is just to break a team down over the course of the game...
...Crimson passing obliterated Springfield's man-to-man defense in the early going, but had more trouble when the Chiefs fell into a sagging zone in the second half...
...Hartog said of the team's offensive performance "the attack worked well together. They came at us with a Zone defense, but we broke the zone early, so they went man-to-man, then we broke man-to-man. They didn't know what to do against...
Crimson coach Carol Kleinfelder praised the B.C. goalie, saying "she did an outstanding job" but concentrated her comments on the strength of the Crimson performance. "I think we straightened out the offense a little better tonight--that's important for the Princeton game. They really crowed us with a man-to-man defense, but we hustled...
...They were playing man-to-man the whole game," Boutilier said. "The most our offense was doing was going to them...