Famous Quotes & Sayings

I like our team a lot. We've got a lot of talented kids, but we need to stay focused and keep going with what we need to do and that's win a conference title.

I'm really pleased with the way the kids are dropping times. We are right on pace heading into the conference meet.

Eddie Jordan

I'm proud to have Gilbert represent us at the All-Star Game. Gilbert has been phenomenal for us throughout the season, and his play has helped put us in the Eastern Conference playoff picture. He is very deserving of this honor, and I think it's a credit to our entire team. We're all very excited and grateful that commissioner Stern recognized Gilbert as one of basketball's true stars.

It's probably odd. You shouldn't be able to play in a prestigious tournament if you are under .500. You take a conference like ours, to get to .500, it's unbelievable. With conference record, you could be under .500, but overall record, you should be over .500.

Davis did a great job for us. He was the player of the year in our conference and he proved it tonight. We had a lot of heart and I'm very proud of them.

Conference USA doesn't expect us to do very well, but we use that as motivation. They put us in last place (in preseason rankings) and we're using that as motivation. It's working pretty well for us during the game.

Conference play is a totally different level of intensity. The stakes are higher. It's hard to put into words how big it truly is.

Concordia has been the team in the conference for a long time. We want to be that team.

TCU gave us everything we could handle. It was a great meet, and it will be really fun to see how things turn out at the conference meet.

Summit Conference is a very interesting play in that it doesn't tell you anything. By the end it actually says, why did this happen, I don't know, you're going to have to figure that out, and you may have to figure it out sooner rather than later because it may happen again.

It's ironic. An hour or two after we have this press conference on drug violence, we're having another (robbery).

It's important for us to get those guys going now, so by the time conference games come along, it won't be such a big adjustment.

It's important for us to establish a mind-set on how we're going to play in the conference tournament. You want to go into the tournament with positive momentum.

It's conference ... then you look to districts. One step at a time.

There's three undefeated teams in the nation right now. And I doubt that any of them will finish the season undefeated. Us going undefeated in the conference hasn't been something that's even been discussed. Obviously, that would be a great accomplishment. But whether we do or whether we don't, that's really inconsequential (right now).

There was a lot riding on this game in terms of postseason play and a share of the conference championship,

This is a very important game. We're vying for position in the conference with Boston, and we definitely want to get a win at home.

I want to make this clear. Whether it's for the Pac-10 Conference tournament championship, Pac-10 championship or second place, whatever it is, this is a big game to us. It means a lot to us, whatever way you slice it.

The newcomers in the conference all should be strong right away. Kennesaw State won a division II title and should come in immediately and dictate the standings. UNF was a division II powerhouse and ETSU should come in and have an immediate impact as well.

After this week, the whole conference playoff picture could be settled.

It's really been a roller-coaster ride this week. After an exciting win over Brevard last Saturday, and then to drop an important conference game to Robbinsville on Tuesday, it was really important to come out and play well tonight.

It really is good. It was so lopsided with them in the conference. It's tough going into the conference meet knowing that you're going to get beat.

It's a huge week. Hopefully we could be playing for a conference championship in that last game.

It's a great time of year. There's a lot going on, and there's a lot of focus being paid to conference standings and potential NCAA tournament teams. It's a time of year where some people thrive and others struggle.

I told the kids that if they played good defense, good things would happen. And I can't say enough about how well they did. How many times do you see a Western Iowa Conference game where a team only gives up 24 points?

I told the kids that this is our conference championship.

It's very disappointing, but it's something that happens. It happened to us today. Yeah, it hurts. It's going to hurt for the rest of the day. We know tomorrow's a new day. We've got to keep our heads up and hope the NCAA realizes what we did in the pre-conference schedule and in the conference and picks us.

John Chaney

For any stellar player in our conference to get hurt, I really feel for that. I'm sorry to hear that.

I'm disappointed to a point. I knew we were on the board, but I knew our status was tenuous because of our conference record. ... It was disappointing to see some of the other teams that got in that shouldn't have. There's a lot of conference politics in this.

I'm disappointed that we have lost these games but I am not discouraged. We are using these games to get ready for our conference games.

I'm proud of the girls for our performance. Last year at this time we weren't even playing seven innings. We made it seven innings with them and we hung in there. They are 6-0 in the conference so they are the team to beat.

I'm proud of the fact that we won the conference title. It means a lot to me and to the girls.

I'm proud of our guys. We won 21 games. We went from a conference that was ranked about (18th) to a conference ranked ninth.