Famous Quotes & Sayings

Each team within a conference will be evaluated singularly, and then they will be clustered to determine an average. Each member will be considered separately within all of the criteria.

They get to run four events (at the conference meet). We want to use him at the fullest capacity.

They had already had their indoor season and been practicing. So I was less prepared. I can't drop out of a conference tournament. Plus, in order to be a successful student, you just don't have time for everything.

Phil Bennett

They didn't want to be in a conference with us, and again, that's their right,

They are pretty young. The Patrick Haynes kid is probably the fastest kid in the conference so we will have to wrap him up. We have to be tremendous tacklers. We can't let the Haynes kid get out in the open. We need to make sure we read our keys properly and run to the football and make plays.

Steve Novak

You don't get a night off in our conference and that's the way you have to be now. You take a night off and you're going home.

Matt Watson

You don't want to lose any conference games. We're just trying to get some wins in the conference. We're going to try to turn it around.

You don't want to go into the tournament losing two in a row and have everybody else having momentum and us having none. So I think it'd be huge to go in there and win on the road and then go play the conference tournament on the road.

You can't help but not gain confidence after a game like this. We start off conference play with Sheridan, Benton and Lake Hamilton. That's an awfully tough start.

Doug Collins

This Miami team has a long way to go if they want to get back to the Eastern Conference finals.

This meet figures to be a very competitive situation, given the field of solid teams. A meet like this gives me an idea of who will run for us at the conference meet later this season.

Matt McKay

This means a lot to us because we lost the conference tournament (to South Central) on a last-second shot. To win the conference, you have to go out and put it all on the line for seven nights, and we were able to do that. I think we were picked third or fourth in the preseason.

There were a lot of people who didn't expect many things from us this year because we lost three top scorers. But this team plays hard and wants to be successful. We just need to get back to where we started conference play.

There were some good and disappointing things on 3-meter. I thought we had dives that were in position to hit and we didn't focus through the finish and those are mistakes that are nice to pop out now because we have a couple weeks to correct it and get sharp for conference and zones. Overall a very productive meet.

It's time for us to get rolling. We have been up and down and it's time for us to step up. A lot of people in our conference have played some of the tougher teams. It's starting for us. The next two weeks will show me what we have.

I want the University of Pittsburgh to experience those things that Connecticut has experienced with conference championships and NCAA titles. We will be a winning program.

It was a disappointing loss. I know this team will be ready for the NCAA Tournament, which is something we have worked for all year. Duke played a good match today and they deserved to win. The conference is so strong from top to bottom, and it was a grueling event.

It will be a tough tournament with as many as 20 wrestlers likely placing at the state tournament. We have a tough tournament team but have battled injuries. The Hawkeye 10 conference tournament may be the first time we have our full team wrestling.

It will take some time to get people in the right events, but we should be competitive in the conference and region. We should also have several individuals place at the state meet.

They are legitimate favorites in their conference and in the league. Having said that, we've played them well over the years whether it's been at their place or here. We're looking forward to that test.

It was kind of a new thing to us, because in Conference USA we'd always been the underdogs. Then we were picked at the top of this conference. (The rough start) wasn't so much a letdown, but media-wise, we didn't meet expectations, or our team's.

It was not your typical Pfizer conference call,

Ohio State has the nod on everybody else. They're tournament-savvy, having been there before. They have earned the No. 1 seed with their play. But our conference has been known to have people come in and dethrone the champion. Yes, it's wide open, but I would have to give my nod to Ohio State.

No matter what, now we have this conference championship. There's a lot of celebrating in there (the locker room).

Not a word he said there is true, ... First of all, he said it's going to be treated like any other case, and, of course, we know that's not true. He also says he did this investigation before he made up his mind. Yet the first press conference he gave before he did any investigation, he called the woman a victim and said she had been through a horrible time.

It's very rare that you see a guy at No. 5 or No. 6 (singles) being named conference Player of the Week, so it's a nice surprise. I'm very proud of Jesper.

Its virtually inconceivable that the outcome of that conference would be positive to conservation,

It's just a wonderful feeling clinching the conference tournament championship. Our program has made remarkable strides. People counted us out early, but our guys showed character.

Derrick Brooks

It's just the first leg of the championship - division, conference and Super Bowl. As good as this feels, we're looking to feel even better next week.

It's just sad that one of them has to leave early. They deserve to meet in the Western Conference finals.

It's exciting to season the efforts of the last two weeks of preseason come together, ... It was nice to see us run as a team, that's going to be key for us if we want to win a conference championship and place in the top 10 at the NCAA Regionals. We have to run tight in a pack.

Jamie Dixon

It's as tough as it has been, no question. There's no question the league has gotten tougher the last couple of years. When we first got into the conference seven years ago there was talk that the conference was down a little bit. The conference is on the rise the last couple of years.

It's a very big game for us; 16-11 is a lot better than 15-12. It's a combination of ending one year but starting the next one, and you don't want to lose four games in a row heading into the conference tournament.