Famous Quotes & Sayings

It was a disappointing loss. I know this team will be ready for the NCAA Tournament, which is something we have worked for all year. Duke played a good match today and they deserved to win. The conference is so strong from top to bottom, and it was a grueling event.

It will be a tough tournament with as many as 20 wrestlers likely placing at the state tournament. We have a tough tournament team but have battled injuries. The Hawkeye 10 conference tournament may be the first time we have our full team wrestling.

It will take some time to get people in the right events, but we should be competitive in the conference and region. We should also have several individuals place at the state meet.

They are legitimate favorites in their conference and in the league. Having said that, we've played them well over the years whether it's been at their place or here. We're looking forward to that test.

Bronco Mendenhall

They know we have a lot of improvement to make. Our goals are eight weeks down the road at the end of conference play. I've been happy with our practices,

Donald Williams

It was a big win for us. A big conference win for us.

It was nice to have that match before playing the two conference teams. We hadn't played outdoors for a while, so there were some adjustments to make. It was a good match. They fought really hard.

It was kind of a new thing to us, because in Conference USA we'd always been the underdogs. Then we were picked at the top of this conference. (The rough start) wasn't so much a letdown, but media-wise, we didn't meet expectations, or our team's.

It was not your typical Pfizer conference call,

Ohio State has the nod on everybody else. They're tournament-savvy, having been there before. They have earned the No. 1 seed with their play. But our conference has been known to have people come in and dethrone the champion. Yes, it's wide open, but I would have to give my nod to Ohio State.

No matter what, now we have this conference championship. There's a lot of celebrating in there (the locker room).

Not a word he said there is true, ... First of all, he said it's going to be treated like any other case, and, of course, we know that's not true. He also says he did this investigation before he made up his mind. Yet the first press conference he gave before he did any investigation, he called the woman a victim and said she had been through a horrible time.

Ryan Hansen

It's television-related in a lot of cases. And it helps split up the conference season.

It's a lot like a conference game for us. They are scrappy and physical, and try to get up and down the floor.

It's always nice to win at home. The guys are looking really good right now. Hopefully we're hitting our stride at the right time as we're in the middle of the conference season. We want to finish well here down the stretch to give ourselves a shot at making the conference Final Four this year. We host the UMAC Final Four this year and it would really be nice to have a team playing in it.

It's always nice to be No. 1, but the something that we're really striving for is to be No. 1 at the end of the season. That's really all that matters. We're really just focused on conference play right now.

It's another conference win. It wasn't a pretty finish, but we finished.

Craig Newmark

It's a pretty important conference regarding Internet trends, because people are talking a lot about what's really happening. Not just the technology, but what it means for our culture in general.

It's going to be an unbelievable series. I wish it was seven games, because that's how good it's going to be. It feels like a Kelly Cup Finals series. It's going to be interesting because the winner is probably going to go and win the (American) Conference Finals.

It's going to be interesting. All of the teams are trying to generate some positive momentum going into conference play. It's a tournament that's pretty much in question. There's not a clear-cut favorite. It's wide open. It ought to be a fun couple of games.

It's good to be in a tournament like this. You don't have that much pressure because there's not something like a conference title on the line. That's good.

It's good to maybe get out of conference and test the waters later in the season. But this game's not any more important or less important than a conference game. We've just got to play.

It's good to get our first conference win. A lot of people saw some time, and that will help us down the road.

Ben Howland

Any time you're the conference champion, you get probably more votes for your players. As it should be.

That's a heck of a team we beat, man. If they do not get into the NIT, then there's something wrong ... there's really something wrong. With the year that this conference has had, that (if) they don't get into the NIT, they should do away with the league, they should do away with the NIT.

That's all we've been hearing for three months, that Nebraska is huge and big, like King Kong. We were not intimidated by that. We played a lot of good teams in our conference and that got us ready for them.

Charles Howard

That's all I'm looking for from those two guys ? their leadership and for the team to follow their style of play. If we can do that consistently, we put ourselves in a good position as we start the second round of the conference (schedule).

Every time you get a conference win, it puts you in a better position. Harrison is always tough and they have a long tradition of playing championship football throughout their program.

(The) last conference title (we won) was two years before I got here. I hadn't tasted it yet, but you know what, it tastes pretty good.

The last few weeks have been great for us. We've learned a lot. Now in conference play, there is a big target on our backs, especially when PLU is involved.

The disappointing part about this loss is that we would have been in control of the conference if we could have come away with a win here. We just didn't play well offensively and it just wasn't our night. I guess those kinds of things occasionally happen on the road.

Steve Alford

And here they are, going into conference undefeated again.

The market's negative reaction to today's press conference is entirely justified.