Craig Littlepage
Craig Littlepage
Craig Littlepageis an American college athletics administrator and former basketball player and coach. He is the athletic director at the University of Virginia. He was named to that position in 2001 and has been with the school as an administrator since 1990. Littlepage served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1982 to 1985 and at Rutgers University from 1985 to 1988...
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We had a discussion and the questions that asked were similar to 'Who is tough?' or 'Who is another team you wouldn't want to play? Air Force provided us with some unique things.
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Coach Groh has provided strong leadership for the university's football program, and we want to ensure continuity in its future academic and athletic successes.
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I think we are comfortable that the modifications have done a lot of what we had hoped. I would think that one of the unintended consequences ... would encourage teams from other parts of the country to play away from home.
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I think if there is a message to relay today, it is too early to say what will happen. Every conference still has important games to be played.
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I think it certainly crushes the notion that you can't look at the numbers and be able to accurately reflect who's a good basketball team and who's not. You need to take a step back and not look at mere brand recognition, if you will.
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You have to face the reality that teams have conference records. So our job is to dig beneath the surface, even among teams that have the same conference records in some conferences.
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Some of the losses that took place ... it certainly does open up the opportunity for teams in the postseason tournaments to solidify a 1-seed or maybe to open the door for other teams.
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If a situation is tight, if we're comparing six to eight teams, and two of those six to eight teams have put together a schedule with rigor, and they've been balanced in terms of playing games both home and away from home, the tiebreaker in that kind of situation is going to go with the teams that have scheduled and have challenged themselves.
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I'd be a little surprised to learn of any top-level program in the area that didn't highly consider him for a job.
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We felt their non-conference could have been a little more challenging, a little more rigorous. But we believe their seed was a solid seed.
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We put together what I think is a really solid and really diverse field for this year's championship.
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There have been some unbelievable stories, great drama and great individual and team performances. But we are continually reminded that the evaluation process is not complete.
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Personally, I would be resistant to that and I believe that in listening to my colleagues on the committee, there doesn't seem to be a lot of momentum in that direction. I think that over the last two years there is a certain magic that has evolved over the course of this tournament, and I wouldn't want to fool around with that in the short term in regards to expanding the field in any way.