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...
ball break difference dominated excellent gave guys job kansas points pushing run
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 game shots
I thought they made big shots all game long .... Not just the early flurry, but just the continuation of making shots.
assume chance entire everybody good league people programs start strive successful teams unfair walking
I think it's unfair that because the traditional programs aren't just walking over everybody else in the league, people just assume that the league must be down. I just think it's a very good league. That's what you strive for when you start a league ? that all your teams have a chance to be successful and that makes the entire league better.
physical playing rotation
I think I'm playing too many guys. I need to find a rotation that will play physical in a physical league.
ncaa shown team worthy
I think this team has shown it's worthy of an NCAA bid.
bothering looked shoulder
Marcus, to me, looked like his shoulder was bothering him a little bit. He didn't look like Marcus.
gone last oklahoma older seniors state wiser
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.
good
We will have had a really good season. We've done a good job.
finish game help higher liked performance proud talking team
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.
basketball beat good great team
This was a great team effort. We beat a very good basketball team.
basketball excited forward good move teams
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.
ball misleading transition turning
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.
change diet game good maybe seeing slow steady team teams
I don't think you can give any good team a steady diet of one defense. I think you have to change defenses and maybe slow the game down a little bit, or get teams off-balance a little bit. I think that's why you're seeing it.