Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Larranaga

When you consider we've done something for the first time in the school's history, and only the second time in conference history, you should be excited about that.

When you come down (to Senior) you know you're going to be in for a battle. It's a tough place to play, and we haven't played very well in Billings, ever, for some reason. And so it's really nice to come away with a conference win.

When we sit down and put it together, obviously we're hoping for significant games that impact conference titles and national rankings. But we do that with the understanding, particularly with Mountain time zone teams, that we spread it around so it's not an undue burden.

Jay Wright

We now have a long-term commitment, a new practice facility planned, a newly expanded conference and renovations planned for the Pavilion. There's nowhere our staff and my family would rather be.

That's the reason why you play the tournament. We play those two games to get some of that rust out of our system, because after that we don't have anything but conference left.

That's the most we scored in a conference game. We're hitting well and playing good defense. It's good to win the conference outright.

Sylvia Hatchell

I would hope that (the NCAA selection committee) wouldn't hold one team in our conference back because of one or two others that got No. 1 seeds.

Nick Holt

I would not have been interested. I think it's an excellent conference. I think it provides us stability, and I think we can grow with the conference It helps us with recruiting. It has a great reputation, and I think it fits our school perfectly.

Miami wasn't in a conference at that time. Miami was an independent,

Who knows what's going to come out of the trustees' conference call?

When the (Big 7) was formed, it was considered to be a power conference. It's lived up to its billing. It's been our most difficult conference to win because every team is good.

I think it will be tight race. Every conference game is really going to matter.

It hasn't been done since I've been here, so it's a big deal. To win the first Big 7 Conference title is a huge accomplishment.

I think this team understands what the Big Ten conference is all about. It's pretty tough to say we're going to win a Big Ten title with Michigan returning but we expect to be in the thick of it.

I'm sure after the Shore Conference (Tournament), everyone thought we were a joke. We take things for granted a lot of times. I think we do better as underdogs.

I'm hoping we get another shot at them in the conference tournament. We gave it our all, they just knocked down shots.

We need six starters for the season and four for conference play.

Like I've been telling the guys, we need to put three meets together like we wrestled Valley, at conference and districts.

I will tell you without any question that every league game I've been in part of in the Big East seems like a conference tournament game. There's an intensity and urgency. It took a while for our kids to get used to.

I was very pleased and surprised our girls won the meet, ... Actually I was a little shocked. This was the first time Kennedy Collier and Katie Upton have run a varsity race. I didn't know what to expect from them, but I knew they could help our team. First place in the conference is quite an honor.

It feels good to win the conference regular-season title, and to head into the tournament with an unbeaten record would be nice, too. But it won't really mean anything when we get to state. We'll have to start over from scratch, then.

It feels good to get back-to-back conference titles. We want to keep it going and keep it rolling.

Jeff Baker

It felt good to get out and play. This should help us going into conference play.

It feels really good to get our first conference win, ... and it being on the road makes it that much sweeter.

Brendan Shanahan

I still see us as having a real strong lineup. Definitely the teams around us in our conference have improved but I don't think people should count us out yet.

I think our offense is starting to turn it around and we're going to need that in conference because everyone pitches well.

I think playing Duke helped us become a better football team, and that's what it's all about. This game helped us get better in our conference and the remainder of our season.

I think most of what people will be looking for will be discussed on the conference call. There's a lot going on in the product front.

I think offensively, we're fine. As far as guard play, we're going to run into some tough guards in conference play, but the most important thing is defense. That's going to win us game, especially if our shots aren't falling.

It doesn't directly impact the conference race, but I think it does indirectly, because we can become a better team because of these matches.

We do this all the time. We pay them for their time. Sometimes they do conference calls. Sometimes they prepare slide shows.

Well it looked like they really wanted to get two Big Ten teams together. Michigan couldn't fit it in the schedule and luckily Michigan State was willing to move our conference game to Thursday. To play in a game of this magnitude, the publicity you get on a national scale, it's just a great position to be in.

Steve Lavin

When you're looking at a school you consider the recruiting base, the resources, the facilities, the conference affiliation, the environment. There's no better environment.