Set up to fail when he was hired, UConn's Kevin Ollie has instead beat the odds

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Former Cavaliers coach Paul Silas had absolutely no idea former Cavs point guard Kevin Ollie wanted to be a coach. Yet, when Silas turned on his television and saw Ollie coaching UConn to the NCAA championship game against 

Different is what Kevin Ollie is, of course. Different mostly from Jim Calhoun. There is certainly less pressure riding on a second-year coach who inherited a team with a postseason ban and a fleeing roster. No one expected miracles out of Ollie this

Kevin Ollie net worth and salary: Kevin Ollie is an American basketball coach who has a net worth of $12 million. He is currently the head coach of the University of Connecticut men's basketball team, and is also a former Huskie who uponĀ 

Napier, Niels Giffey and Tyler Olander represented the remnants of Calhoun's 2011 champions, but despite all the talk about the shadow that looms over Kevin Ollie, his hand-picked replacement, the players had no problem breaking the psychic connection

Former Philadelphia 76ers guard Kevin Ollie guided the UConn Huskies to the national championship game Saturday night with a win over top-seeded Florida. Ollie. whose NBA career spanned from 1997-2010 with stints at 12 different teams, was a part of