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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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.
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Pray . . . I'm going to start there. You've just got to compete. I guess if I had to wish for just one thing to occur with our guys, it's just that we compete . . . It's going to be a physically played basketball game; that's just the nature of how they play. We just have to bow our backs and be ready to respond to that.
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Sometimes what happens is the media may throw that information out there and start believing that's the case. But I think anyone who has watched the Big 12 closely realizes it's as good a conference as there is.
life seniors start thinking
It's a new season. There's always a possibility that seniors will start thinking about life after basketball.
early game shots
I thought they made big shots all game long .... Not just the early flurry, but just the continuation of making shots.
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.
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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.
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Marcus, to me, looked like his shoulder was bothering him a little bit. He didn't look like Marcus.
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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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We will have had a really good season. We've done a good job.
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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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This was a great team effort. We beat a very good basketball team.
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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.