Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Chaney

Villanova could easily be No. 1 in the country. There's nobody that shoots the ball as those four players on the floor, not even Duke.

Tom Shales

Viewers ... may well have been hoping the famous giant ball was the only thing that would drop before the night was over.

Washington is one of the better teams in the state and has a really nice ball club. At crucial times in the game, we missed shots. We got to be able to finish games, but we haven't been able to this year.

(Warren-Mott) kept us out of our game. They tipped the ball and hit over screens. They did a good job of keeping themselves in the game.

We are as prepared as we will ever be. The game will be a good one. We will match up pretty well with Auburn. I know that Auburn will be relentless in control of the ball and the game. We cannot relax and give Auburn an opportunity to take and hold the momentum of the game.

Kobe Bryant

We are a much better team right now. We are playing really well and executing very well. We are moving the ball and defensively we are working hard, hustling and closing out the shots.

We are very excited about getting Ron to Eastern Illinois. He brings a lot of speed and versatility to our offense. We are going to try and get him the ball as much as possible. With his speed, he has the threat to go the distance every time he touches the ball. We will also have him returning kicks and punts.

We did a pretty good job moving the ball on offense. We really have to stop those turnovers, but credit Central Kitsap -- their kids played real well.

Herb Williams

We did a pretty good job in the first half. But then in the third quarter we came out and had no energy. We didn't move the ball and we turned it over too much. We fell back into what we were doing before.

Ben Gordon

We did a poor job of taking care of the ball. There was too many times when we just just threw the ball away and we had to many offensive fouls.

We did a nice job on the wing getting the ball inside. I thought the play of our wing players was very consistent. They didn't try and force the ball in when it wasn't there. Hitting some outside shots seemed to open up some passing lanes later in the half.

We did a nice job of taking the ball the other way tonight. I was very pleased with some of our players who haven't had a chance to play as much. They got in there and had disciplined at-bats. I was pleased with the way our bench carried itself. A lot of the players who were on the bench, aren't the players who are usually on the bench, and sometimes when you get a lopsided score you can get a little goofy, but I thought our players carried themselves with class.

John Callaghan

We did a nice job of getting the ball inside where they could do something with it.

We did a nice job of getting the ball inside to the right people. It was too much for them to handle.

We did a nice job finding the open person and finishing inside. We got the type of shots we wanted by really moving the ball really well. I really think we're doing better at finding the open person and getting the ball inside. That has made a big difference.

We did a much better job taking care of the ball today, but we had poor shooting early on.

Billy Donovan

We did a much better job moving the ball inside out in the second half.

We did a lot of things well. We threw well, played good solid defense and put the ball into play.

We did a lot of things well. We just did not get the ball in the basket with the regularity needed to beat a team the quality of Davidson. I thought we played hard, but it just wasn't enough today.

Jamie Dixon

We did a lot of things well, we battled, we played hard. We have to do some things better, take care of the ball better. We need to get to the foul line more.

Scott Skiles

We did a lot of good things tonight with the exception of four or five minutes with our defense breaking down. Other than that we had 40 plus minutes of pretty solid defense. We moved the ball well. We got a lot of open looks.

We did a lot better towards the end of the season when we won seven of eight. We know where each other is on the court. We have better ball movement. We're moving off the ball. We're seeing each other better. That's a big improvement. The defense has picked up a lot. We're getting back on defense.

John Anderson

We did a great job of controlling the ball and being patient enough to get the look that we wanted. And that was the difference, very much so.

We did a great job keeping the ball down and trying to keep it away from their hitters. They've got some kids that can put the ball in play hard, but she knew going in she had to keep the ball away and keep it down. For the most part, she did that.

We did a great job getting the ball down low. That's our game. We try to go inside to our strength. We got in foul trouble in the first half, and it put a little damper on us.

We did a good job. We forced them to make some errors here and there. The girls hit the ball good." ()

We did a good job trying to get back in the game. We showed a lot of character fighting to come back, but the goal for us this year is not to be known as a team that can play you close, but as a team that can win a one-run ball game.

We did a good job taking care of the basketball, but we didn't do a good job of putting pressure on the ball to force turnovers.

We did a good job spreading the ball around, and I thought Brent Poole improved a lot at quarterback. He'll continue to improve.

We did a good job sharing the ball on offense. We took what they gave us and we shared the ball well.

We did a good job of taking care of the ball in the fourth quarter and moving it around to run out the clock.

We did a good job of stepping where we need to step. They run a lot of ball screens and we are supposed to work our defense accordingly. Tonight we did. We did a good job of rotating, anticipating the pass and looking ahead.

We did a good job of putting the ball in play. We showed pretty good patience at times, though we stranded a few runners.