Editing Jim Calhoun (section)

{{Short description|American basketball player and coach (born 1942)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}}
{{Infobox college coach
| name = Jim Calhoun
| image = Jim Calhoun.jpg
| alt = 
| caption = Calhoun in 2003
| current_team = 
| current_conference = 
| current_record = 
| contract = 
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1942|5|10}}
| birth_place = [[Braintree, Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| alma_mater = <!--[[American International College]]-->
| player_years1 = 1965–1968
| player_team1 = [[American International Yellow Jackets men's basketball|American International]]
| player_positions = 
| coach_years1 = 1968–1969
| coach_team1 = [[Lyme-Old Lyme High School|Lyme-Old Lyme HS]]
| coach_years2 = 1970–1972
| coach_team2 = [[Dedham High School|Dedham HS]]
| coach_years3 = 1972–1986
| coach_team3 = [[Northeastern Huskies men's basketball|Northeastern]]
| coach_years4 = 1986–2012
| coach_team4 = [[UConn Huskies men's basketball|UConn]]
| coach_years5 = 2018–2021
| coach_team5 = [[Saint Joseph Blue Jays men's basketball|Saint Joseph (CT)]]
| overall_record = {{Winning percentage|920|397|record=y}}
| tournament_record = 50–19 ([[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA Division I]])<br>0–1 ([[NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament|NCAA Division III]])
| championships = {{Plainlist|
* 3 [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA Division I tournament]] ([[1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1999]], [[2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2004]], [[2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2011]])
* 4 [[List of NCAA Division I Men's Final Four appearances by coach|NCAA Division I regional – Final Four]] (1999, 2004, [[2009 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2009]], 2011)
* 7 [[Big East men's basketball tournament|Big East tournament]] (1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2011)
* 10 [[Big East Conference|Big East]] regular season (1990, 1994–1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006)
* 5 [[America East Conference men's basketball tournament|ECAC North tournament]] (1981–1982, 1984–1986)
* 6 [[America East Conference|ECAC North]] regular season (1980–1982, 1984–1986)
* [[Great Northeast Athletic Conference men's basketball tournament|GNAC tournament]] (2020)
* [[Great Northeast Athletic Conference|GNAC]] regular season (2020)
* [[National Invitation Tournament|NIT]] ([[1988 National Invitation Tournament|1988]])
}}
| awards = {{Plainlist|
* [[John R. Wooden Award#Legends of Coaching Award|John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award]] (2005)
* [[Associated Press College Basketball Coach of the Year|AP Coach of the Year]] (1990)
* [[UPI College Basketball Coach of the Year|UPI Coach of the Year]] (1990)
* [[CBS Sports|CBS]]/[[Chevrolet]] Coach of the Year (1990)
*[[Sporting News Men's College Basketball Coach of the Year Award|Sporting News Coach of the Year]] (1990)
* 4× [[Big East Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year|Big East Coach of the Year]] (1990, 1994, 1996, 1998)
* [[America East Conference|America East]] Coach of the Year (1986)
* [[Best Coach/Manager ESPY Award]] (2019)
}}
| coaching_records = 
| BASKHOF_year = 2005
| BASKHOF_id = jim-calhoun
| CBBASKHOF_year = 2006 (celebrated in 2022)
| FIBA_HOF_player = 
| medaltemplates = 
| show-medals = 
}}

'''James A. Calhoun''' (born May 10, 1942)<ref name="Curr Bio">{{cite book|title=Current Biography Yearbook 2011|year=2011|publisher=H.W. Wilson|location=Ipswich, Massachusetts|isbn=9780824211219|pages=[https://archive.org/details/currentbiography0000unse_z0h6/page/106 106–109]|chapter=Calhoun, Jim|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/currentbiography0000unse_z0h6/page/106}}</ref> is an American former [[college basketball]] coach. He is best known for his tenure as head coach of the [[University of Connecticut]] (UConn) men's [[UConn Huskies men's basketball|basketball]] team. His teams won three [[NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA national championships]] ([[1999 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|1999]], [[2004 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2004]], [[2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|2011]]), played in four Final Fours, won the 1988 [[National Invitation Tournament|NIT]] title, and won seventeen Big East Championships, which include 7 [[Big East men's basketball tournament|Big East tournament]] championships (1990, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2011) and 10 Big East regular season (1990, 1994–1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006). With his team's 2011 NCAA title win, the 68-year-old Calhoun became the oldest coach to win a Division I men's basketball title.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/connecticut_coach_jim_calhoun_just_wont_go_away/2011/04/04/AFjNBzgC_story.html |title=Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun just won't go away |last=Wise |first=Mike |authorlink=Mike Wise (columnist) |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=April 5, 2011 |access-date=April 5, 2011}}</ref> He won his 800th game in 2009 and finished his NCAA Division I career with 873 victories, ranking [[List of college men's basketball coaches with 600 wins|11th all time]] as of February 2019. From 2018 to 2021, he served as head coach of the [[University of Saint Joseph (Connecticut)|University of Saint Joseph]] men's basketball team. Calhoun is one of only six coaches in NCAA Division I history to win three or more championships, and he is widely considered one of the greatest coaches of all time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://basketball.about.com/od/coaches/a/multiple-championships.htm|title=Basketball|access-date=February 20, 2014|archive-date=February 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225014627/http://basketball.about.com/od/coaches/a/multiple-championships.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1341064-10-greatest-coaches-in-ncaa-basketball-history|title = 10 Greatest Coaches in NCAA Basketball History| website=[[Bleacher Report]] }}</ref> In 2005, he was inducted into the [[Basketball Hall of Fame]].