Mark Gottfried
Mark Gottfried
Mark Frederick Gottfried is an American men's college basketball coach and former player. He was named head coach of North Carolina State University on April 5, 2011...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 January 1964
accepted build certainly easiest fact great guy key knew lose losing particular player points proud proven reason team
This particular team has made me very proud of them. The reason is, they certainly could have accepted the fact that losing a great player, a proven player for us, a guy that we all knew could get baskets in key points in the game. Lose that guy and the easiest thing to do is build in excuses.
alabama miss tough win
This has always been a tough place for Alabama to play. To win here is big, because Ole Miss has always been tough on us here.
bark good great league point
It just legitimizes our conference. We always want to bark about how good our league is, yet at some point you have to back it up. I think our whole league did great in the tournament.
four free key plays stepped throws
Davidson stepped up and made those four free throws at the end. We made some key plays at key times.
carry chuck davis high hurt knows level load obviously
He's obviously had to carry more of the load when (senior forward) Chuck Davis got hurt. He knows he has to play at a high level for us to have a chance.
last shooting sparks year
I thought I was in for another Patrick Sparks like last year the way he was shooting it.
basketball college fresh longest physically players season
College basketball is a long season, probably the longest season on a college campus. So when you get to the end of the season, you want your players to be fresh physically and mentally.
advance team watch
Florida's a team we're going to watch advance through the tournament.
difference eight nine
I think there's not a lot of difference between the eight and nine seeds, that's what makes it difficult.
hard pace prepare team
I don't want to take anything away from Birmingham-Southern, but they're a very hard team to prepare from in one day. It's hard to get them out of the pace they want to play.
attitude bit chance damage felt last returning team year
Last year we felt we had a team could really make some damage in this tournament, and we didn't do it. So for our returning players, I think there is a little bit of the attitude that we want a chance to do this a lot better than we did last year.
allowed excuse injury statement
I think it's a statement for our players. I don't think that they ever allowed Chuck's injury to be a built-in excuse for them.
beat forward human looks miss playing team
I think our team looks forward to playing Ole Miss again. That team beat you once, and you look forward to playing again. It's only human nature.
coach knew level opportunity smaller successful
He was very successful at the smaller level, and when he had the opportunity to coach at this level I knew he would do well.