Ricardo Patton
Ricardo Patton
Ricardo Maurice Pattonis an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Northern Illinois University. On March 9, 2011, NIU announced that Patton would not return as their head coach for the 2011–12 season, it is unclear whether he resigned or was fired. Prior to this, he was the head coach at the University of Colorado. He was hired as head coach for the Buffaloes on March 5, 1996, just days before the Big Eight Conference...
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That's been a topic of discussion for the last couple of years. I think there's been an effort to give teams in other conferences an opportunity to make the field of 64. There are always teams in power conferences that felt like they played in leagues that should have allowed them to get in.
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The thing you learn from winning is how to win, and they are a very disciplined basketball team. I think if you look at the guys that make big plays for them, they are the guys who have been pretty consistent all season long.
life seniors start thinking
It's a new season. There's always a possibility that seniors will start thinking about life after basketball.
forefront thinking
That's not something at the forefront of Roby's thinking right now.
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Kansas did an excellent job of pushing the ball up the floor. The difference in their break and most other teams' is that their big guys really run the floor. So we gave up too many fast-break points and were dominated on the glass.
early kids signed
We signed these kids early so this is not an evaluation. We're just here for support.
basketball beat good great team
This was a great team effort. We beat a very good basketball team.
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We've got the seniors that have all gone through this league. We're no different than Oklahoma State was last year. We're older and we're wiser and we don't get rattled.
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What Texas A&M beating Texas really means to me is it just confirms what I said all along - this league is not down. There are some awful good teams in this league.
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We have done well on that all season. We have not had to rely on one guy for our 3-point shots.
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We thought our performance in that game (A&M) didn't help our cause. Certainly, we would've liked to have been selected. But you're talking about a team that no one thought would finish higher than ninth. I'm still very proud of what this team did this year.
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We started out making shots, but that was a little misleading because we didn't get back in transition well or rebound. Then we just started turning the ball over and that compounded our problems.
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We're excited to move forward and be one of the 105 teams that's still playing. There are some really good basketball teams in this tournament.
coming fed great guys section student thank tonight
What a great crowd. We had a great student section tonight and I want to thank everyone for coming out. I thought our guys really fed off that energy.