our thoughts are with danica weeks, her two sops and all the families of the passengers of flight 370, which disappeared four weeks ago today. that s it for us tonight. i want to thank my panel. unguarded with rachel nichols starts right now. tonight on unguarded with rachel nichols it s the ncaa tournament s ultimate weekend. and rachel has the latest from the coaches and players fighting for college basketball s biggest prize. kentucky s head coach john calapari. we re playing seven freshman that are going to go out in front of 75,000. head coach bo ryan of wisconsin. it s so exciting to bring a team here. that s how i get excited. connect s star guard. i m just so glad to be back here now. so happy you start crying. and florida head coach billy donovan. we ve been a team that s gotten it done together. unguarded is on location from arlington, texas.
he first played at the elite level, now as a coach he s won two titles. but before he goes for his third this weekend, he sat down to talk to unguarded. welcome back to the final four. there s kids out there who just know you as a coach. but most of us remember you at providence, billy the kid, had that great exciting run to the final four. but then you lost. what did you learn from that experience that you can teach your kids now? i remember running out of the locker room and there being 70,000 people in the superdome. i think it was very, very overwhelming, exciting. there was a different feeling because we were this cinderella team, we were an eight seed, and we go on this run and all of a sudden we get to this, and i hope in some way i can get our guys to understand that you don t want to get overwhelmed. i think my experience as a player i can share with those guys about they got to rest properly. they cannot get emotionally drained through all this stuff. there s a lot of d
he was hanging out in the lobby. more coaches knew him than me. there s an mc hammer story? he challenged mc hammer to a danceoff in the lobby in new orleans. got a lot of attention. how old was he? maybe like 60, 65. probably my age right now. is there anything you plan to do here this weekend to honor your father? just to try to make sure i give my players, like he did when he coached kids for 40 years, just try to give them my full attention and give them the proper advice and not get in their way. just trying to encourage them to be the best they can and enjoy the moment. coach them up right. a fitting tribute indeed. we have lots more on this special edition of unguarded, including a conversation with billy donovan, as he tries to lead the top ranked florida gators to a remarkable third national title. right after this, the player who has been dazzling fans these
it needs to get down with enough runway, and we landed and the nose went right against the fence. it looked in the middle of the season you guys were struggling. that you weren t going to get your act together. what changed? it takes a while to find your way? yes. there s no you cannot skip steps in the process. you have to go through the fire to become steel. you have to. you have to get knocked down to really feel what getting up is about. you have to have games where you get knocked around so you can figure out how to fight through. you have to be down so you can come up. you have to be in grind it out games. you have to play in fast games, zone games. this team, it s all first-time stuff with them. calapari told me he can t sustain this strategy of loading him team with a new group of freshman every year for much longer. but it s what he has this year, and he s riding it. all right, after the break, we ll hear from the coach of kentucky s opponent, wisconsin s
figure out how to fight through. you have to be down so you can come up. you have to be in grind it out games. you have to play in fast games, zone games. this team, it s all first-time stuff with them. calapari told me he can t sustain this strategy of loading him team with a new group of freshman every year for much longer. but it s what he has this year, and he s riding it. all right, after the break, we ll hear from the coach of kentucky s opponent, wisconsin s bo ryan. with a very heartfelt trib put to the man he most wishes was here in arlington. it would be nice to have him here. hedges into a t-rex. i can do all that with my android from tracfone for as low as $7 a month. [ male announcer ] unbeatable nationwide coverage, no contract. for a limited time, save $50 on the zte valet. now just 49.99. tracfone. do everything for less.