Dane Bradshaw
Dane Bradshaw
basketball couple minutes solid sweet talking
A couple of more minutes of solid basketball and we're talking about the Sweet 16.
coach coaching contagious few game leads lost pearl picking starting telling versus wisconsin
Coach Pearl was telling me about a game versus Wisconsin he had. He said that was one of the few leads he's lost in his coaching career. We're picking up on the coaches' mentality, and it's starting to become contagious around here.
expected hurts nobody sweet
Nobody expected us to get this far. It hurts now because we think we should've made the Sweet 16, but we accomplished a lot.
coach gets major point
Coach gets his point across. Major will be fine. It's not just on him. It's on everybody.
blessing next opportunity senior situation treat year
I told everyone to treat this like your senior year because you don't know what next year will bring. To be in this situation and have this opportunity is a real blessing for us all.
battle game mental percent team
No team is 100 percent right now. That's the part of the game you have to battle through. It's about mental toughness.
beat both mean regular season team twice
Both games, they were right there with us. Just because you beat a team twice during the regular season doesn't mean they're the same team.
ability arkansas best came felt haunt matter playing wanting
Even when we had a double-digit lead, it felt like we were a little sloppy. We weren't playing to the best of our ability and it came back to haunt us. But give Arkansas credit. It was a matter of Arkansas wanting it more.
chris knew sure
I was pretty sure I knew where Chris was going.
adversity benefit faced lost ready run throughout tournament type
This will benefit us in the long run in the tournament. We've faced every type of adversity throughout the season. We've been down before and lost leads. Now, we're ready for tournament play.
case coach continue definitely good obviously says situation teams turned
You can definitely make the case that this was good for us, the way it turned out. Coach says the teams we play obviously will continue to get better, but the situation we were in won't get any tougher.
air aware cbs coach hurt pearl trying year
We're well aware of that game. It was a CBS game, and it actually hurt us this year when Coach Pearl was trying to get us some air time.
capable deep excited game next realize scouting team
You get excited when you see the No. 2 next to your name. But when you realize what a capable team Winthrop is, when we look deep into the scouting report, you realize that no game is going to be easy.
board coach defense dug hole ourselves puts
We just dug ourselves too big a hole in the first half. Coach (Pearl) puts defense and rebounding on the board before every game, and we haven't been able to do that consistently.