Famous Quotes & Sayings

Recent history suggests they're in. When you win the championship of a top-10 RPI conference like the Mountain West, you're in.

Our players have their sights set on winning our conference this year. Last year, we were around a .500 team, so we're definitely looking to improve, because we know we can do better than that.

Our regular season conference schedule prepares us for the post-season. To come out of our district was rewarding, for sure.

Flip Saunders

Part of it is teams that were not very good have gotten better, which makes for a much more competitive conference. What developed for a few years in the Western Conference has now come back to the East, where there aren't really any gimme games.

Pascal Lamy

Some of you will have read, or perhaps written, stories about a Plan B to be implemented in the event that the Hong Kong ministerial conference falls short of our objectives.

John Hendricks

Somehow, they have become our conference rival, and we're opening the season with them, so I'm expecting a good, hard-fought game.

Our preparation and focus is to get ready for the Big Ten. Our record is 0-0 in the conference and that's our mentality right now.

Our plan was to get as tough of schedule as we could in the spring, so that way when we played our conference we'd be prepared, and I think we have been able to do that.

Our plan is to get ourselves ready for the conference schedule with these early games.

Our team?s focus has been pretty good (during the conference season). They?re keeping things in perspective.

Our team isn't thinking about the NCAA Tournament. We want to win our conference championship.

Billy Donovan

Our starters didn't play a lot of minutes, and it was good to see us score as many points as we did with those guys not playing. For our team right now, playing this midweek game before getting back into the (Southeastern) conference at Tennessee (Saturday) was good for us.

Our schedule is very challenging. The early portion of the schedule will help us to identify our strengths and weaknesses and better prepare for the most important part of our season the conference schedule. Obviously, we want to become as successful as possible. We also want to improve and develop as much as possible as we go along.

Our schedule does not give us any breaks, especially early on. We wanted it that way to get our guys ready for conference play.

Our schedule allows us to play our traditional local rivals, as well as some national powers, before we get into the conference schedule, ... We travel to Duke and Virginia Tech, play a full slate at the Garden and play in the Holiday Festival. This will give St. John's fans a great opportunity to follow our team, which features a lot of new faces this year.

Our rivalries are the conference games. But as far as trying to determine who's king of the hill, the Patriots are the king.

Our focus has been on winning the conference title.

Our goal is just to get the next win. Our goal was to get one conference win and now we're searching for that next win. We need to be eager and get better every day.

Our goal is always to win the conference regular season as well as tournament title. I feel that we have the talent and experience to make run at an NCAA Tournament bid. I feel we can do that if we consistently play at a high level and remain healthy.

Our goal every season is to win the regular season title and then once we get that part done, we want to win the conference tournament and make a good showing there. We have made steps in that direction the last two years - I don't know if this is a natural progression but I think we should be in the mix.

Our first goal is to make it into the conference tournament.

Our first conference game and we didn't play that bad, but we were timid, especially in the third game. I saw positives throughout the match. Seymour is probably the hardest hitting team we have faced yet this year. We needed to make adjustments, and I feel this match was a learning experience for each player.

Bear Bryant

Our game plan is first year, a .500 season. Second year, a conference championship. Third year, undefeated. Fourth, a national championship. And by the fifth year, we'll be on probation, of course.

Overall it was good to get outside the last two days, even though it was cold. To get out here and work out a lot of the kinks before we kick off the conference season on Tuesday, I think it will make a big difference.

Overall it was a good weekend, with several more Big East qualifiers and with two more weeks of preparation, I think we will be ready for our first ever Big East indoor conference championships.

Overall, it was a good meet. We're very optimistic. We have a much better team than last year. A top-three finish at the conference meet is the goal.

Overall, the team has been working well. I am happy picking up two wins in the conference this week.

Our young team has worked hard, and it showed in the opening game. This was a great conference win for us.

Our young guys don't even know what they're getting into with the conference schedule. With the more physical players we'll see now, we could get overpowered inside.

Bobby Jones

Robert Morris and St. Francis are like the step-children of the Northeast Conference when it comes to TV exposure.

Matt Johnson

Rochester (Century) is probably the most dominant team in the conference by far. We swam well tonight. Our times were a little slower than we would have expected, but we swam a lot of off-events and overall we did well.

Pitching should be our strength. We have two juniors and a sophomore with varsity experience. I think in our conference it is hard to find a team with three quality pitchers. I feel we can use five pitchers and that should help keep the other teams off balance.

Playing in our conference gets you ready for this time of year.