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Howland aiming for rare back-to-back-to-back Final Fours

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

PHOENIX -- The newest member of the BCNTHWANC must have his water bottle placed in the exact same spot for every game. You can't miss it: front corner of the scorer's table, right next to the bench, the bottle's butt dropped inside a roll of duct tape for protection. There's even two people -- a team manager and a director of basketball ops -- in charge of the whole thing. So, yeah, UCLA's Ben Howland is a bit of a control freak. Not that he cares what you think. And he probably isn't too inte ...

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