Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think she's a wonderful person. I think her basketball knowledge and relationship with the girls was outstanding.

I think putting four kids in double figures tonight really shows were growing as a basketball team and that's an encouraging sign.

I think prep basketball over the entire state has gotten better. And I think you can see it from these players that spring up at programs from around the country and you say, 'Where did this kid come from?

I think everybody was excited and a little nervous with Robert out. But Tyler Smith did a great job coming in. What I like is that Tyler is a different kind of player than Robert, but he played solid basketball and set up some guys for easy baskets and made some really nice passes early. He just blended in like he'd been starting forever. It was nice to see a different lineup come out there and succeed.

I think everybody in basketball knows that about 70 percent of the rebounds go opposite of from where you shoot it. So we just figure if you get more players on the opposite side, we've got a chance mathematically to grab a lot more boards.

John Brady

I think on any given night, any good college basketball team can beat another one, particularly in a tournament situation.

I think our biggest strength this year is our height. We've been spending a few years to try and convince a few of the basketball players to come out and play, and this year we got a couple of them.

Those guys make a big difference in our team, Lester with his aggressiveness and his toughness and Chris with his basketball knowledge and his savvy to make plays defensively and to make shots on offense.

Larry Hughes

Whether you win by 30 or lose by two you just have to move on. What we did in Game 1 really doesn't mean anything if we come out and don't take care of what we are supposed to take care of in Game 2. That's pretty much the nature of it.

Whether you're playing a basketball game or a football game, everybody needs to play by the rules and in this case I don't believe the rules were followed.

Without a doubt, we're playing our best basketball right now. We have as much confidence now as any time this season.

O. J. Simpson

Yesterday we were well, I don't think we were quite mentally here to play basketball when we showed up. I guess we had too many distractions.

We're a great basketball team, and they thumped us pretty good. I think that's the team that's going to win the state championship.

We don't want to look too far ahead. But we do want to establish ourselves as a strong basketball program. We just don't what this to be a one-year thing.

We ended the season on a good little run and we're playing probably our best basketball now. Our defense is feeding our offense and it's much better basketball for us now that we're focusing on defense.

Ben Wallace

We dug a hole and had to fight to try and get back in the game. And when you play like that, sometimes it just bites you in the end -- when you play garbage basketball for the first 24 minutes.

Jim Calhoun

We really played our best basketball. It was one of the few games I can say you could just enjoy. It was just really a tremendous basketball game for us and hopefully it's a peek into what we're capable of. Seasons are really funny. But I think those things are good. We jump right now into a hot stove.

We really moved the basketball tonight. I liked our ball movement, our spacing, and we were very patient with the basketball.

We got beat by a much better basketball team today. They had a lot to do with how we played.

We got beat by a much better basketball team today. Albany has great pieces. They just have a lot of weapons.

Gary Blair

We got beat by a better basketball team tonight, we got beat by a better-coached basketball team tonight, and we got beat by a team that executed their half-court offense a whole lot better than we did.

We got beat by 20 last year. We got some quality kids here, they're gutsy, they're not all basketball players but they're gutsy. We'll be ready.

We got back to playing team basketball and believing we are a good basketball team. When we play as a team, we're giving ourselves the opportunity to win games.

We don't have a 20-point-a-night scorer. Our kids share the basketball and score by committee. Whoever is open shoots it, and we all have pretty good shooters, so that helps.

Jay Smith

We have some young guys who have played, so it's not like we don't have any experience. I like the energy, but it's the unknown that concerns you. Taking care of the basketball and rebounding are two things that could be problems for us.

We have some holes to fill, but we had kids who learned how to play basketball at the varsity level and that will help us next season.

We have some guys who understand what it takes. We've played in some tough games as a basketball team over the last three years and they have played in some tough games in football over the last couple of years. They understand what it takes.

We have some good basketball teams coming in throughout the three days. I'm pleased with who all is coming. There should be some great basketball being played.

We have some fabulous freshman on this team. They've played a lot of basketball and have a lot of confidence right now.

Jennifer Rizzotti

We can't win the basketball game without Erika in the game.

We are truly fortunate to have one of the most respected and successful coaches leading our organization. Mike has been an integral part of our success and has been involved in all decision making. He will now lead our basketball operations, supported by the extensive talents within his department.

Greg Thomas

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We are thrilled to be able to revive coverage of Midnight Madness as a television franchise in partnership with five of the most successful college basketball programs in the country. Midnight Madness has long been a staple in the college basketball community, and we are excited that we can share this great tradition with a national audience.