Famous Quotes & Sayings

Plan A right now, if it's just seven teams, is for each team to play the other conference teams three times,

Really, we're just trying to end the regular season on a good note having a winning record and going into our conference tournament with confidence.

Recent history suggests they're in. When you win the championship of a top-10 RPI conference like the Mountain West, you're in.

Our players have their sights set on winning our conference this year. Last year, we were around a .500 team, so we're definitely looking to improve, because we know we can do better than that.

Our regular season conference schedule prepares us for the post-season. To come out of our district was rewarding, for sure.

Flip Saunders

Part of it is teams that were not very good have gotten better, which makes for a much more competitive conference. What developed for a few years in the Western Conference has now come back to the East, where there aren't really any gimme games.

I am extremely excited about the performance tonight. We had several personal bests, and I'm really pleased with how Jamaal (Charles) and Ryan (Palmer) stepped in today and competed. Raymond (Harris) is showing us that he will be a player at the indoor conference meet.

I am just hoping to get to conference play on a positive note. A win tomorrow (Wednesday) will hopefully set us on the right path.

Lon Kruger

I am very disappointed for Jason. It is always tough to miss time with an injury, but when it happens during the stretch run and around conference tournament time it is a big let down.

Rick Crawford

I am very curious to see how the conference shapes up this spring.

Steve Price

(Caulk) didn't lose a game the whole tournament, and that hardly ever happens. She has been really tough in the conference all year.

Steve Price

(Caulk) didn't lose a game the whole tournament, and that hardly ever happens, ... She has been really tough in the conference all year.

H-K is too quick for us right now. They're going to be one of the strongest teams in the conference by the end of the season.

He's going to be tough. He always is. He's been pitching in the conference as long as I have. He can be overpowering at times. I know right now the game is going to be close. I look at it as one of the tougher games I'm going to have throughout the season.

We may be the only conference ? I'm sure we are the only conference ? in the country where the majority of institutions are being penalized by the NCAA.

It is about time I do something other than win conference championship rings. I want to win the big one.

It is a conference game and it is important. If we go where we say we want to go, we have to win.

It hit us at a hard time. We only have eight conference games so it took a lot out of our season. We weren't the same.

Drew Pearson

I think with the lack of success in the last two years, it's very important for us to win a regular-season game, ... The conference we're in is very difficult.

I think the door is wide open this year. It's going to be a race to the finish, because there are so many teams that can win the conference this year, as opposed to the past, where you could identify the favorite.

I think the conference was a great success.

I think the conference race is already done. I think Wichita State is going to win the race. I think what everybody else is trying to do is to get the highest seed they can get for the tournament, or finish as the runner-up.

Bo Ryan

There are so many good guards in the conference that if you don't have one like Devin, you'll get buried. He's finding out that he's a natural for the point position.

I was like, come on do it for New Jersey. I saw her kick and knew she was going to keep it going. I was thinking that would be incredible, having two Shore Conference girls winning Penn Relays titles.

William Bratton

I was just at a conference of police chiefs. It was all everybody was talking about.

That was not a senior play. But the guys didn't lose their composure. I just wish we were healthy. We're the only team in the conference who hasn't been healthy from start to finish.

That was only four seconds off the conference record. These guys really were hungry to not only win a conference championship but to get to state.

That's the reason why you play the tournament. We play those two games to get some of that rust out of our system, because after that we don't have anything but conference left.

That's the most we scored in a conference game. We're hitting well and playing good defense. It's good to win the conference outright.

Sylvia Hatchell

I would hope that (the NCAA selection committee) wouldn't hold one team in our conference back because of one or two others that got No. 1 seeds.

Nick Holt

I would not have been interested. I think it's an excellent conference. I think it provides us stability, and I think we can grow with the conference It helps us with recruiting. It has a great reputation, and I think it fits our school perfectly.

He's got to step up his game, as a senior, in conference play.

Well it looked like they really wanted to get two Big Ten teams together. Michigan couldn't fit it in the schedule and luckily Michigan State was willing to move our conference game to Thursday. To play in a game of this magnitude, the publicity you get on a national scale, it's just a great position to be in.