Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a big difference from Conference USA. Not only is it competitive, but it is extremely deep.

It wasn't unusual for a kid to sign a conference letter and still be recruited. Signing day was in March then, and if you signed a kid (to a conference letter), you had to baby-sit him to make sure he was still coming.

It was disappointing. But not that we lost the conference regular-season (title). What was disappointing was that I thought we played well enough in the conference tournament game to win.

It was fun having conference at home, we just wished we could have done a little better. It was a good experience for our team, though. It will only make us stronger.

It was extremely important to us to play well because there were some things we didn't do particularly well at the end of the season. You know this conference will humble you, and it is imperative that you correct those things.

It was special for our seniors to win the conference tournament for the second time in three years.

It was real sloppy in the first half, lots of mistakes. It's a big victory. We'll take the 'W.' We've got to pick it up another notch because next week we start Conference Indiana play.

It was a tough game, but it was good to get a win in our first conference game.

Jamie Dixon

It was a wild place. It was really rocking. We had to win that game or we wouldn't have won the conference championship.

It's going to be an unbelievable series. I wish it was seven games, because that's how good it's going to be. It feels like a Kelly Cup Finals series. It's going to be interesting because the winner is probably going to go and win the (American) Conference Finals.

It's going to be interesting. All of the teams are trying to generate some positive momentum going into conference play. It's a tournament that's pretty much in question. There's not a clear-cut favorite. It's wide open. It ought to be a fun couple of games.

It's good to be in a tournament like this. You don't have that much pressure because there's not something like a conference title on the line. That's good.

It's good to maybe get out of conference and test the waters later in the season. But this game's not any more important or less important than a conference game. We've just got to play.

It's good to get our first conference win. A lot of people saw some time, and that will help us down the road.

It shows our fans we have what it takes to win and it shows the conference we're still in it to win it. There's no dying in our team.

It's been a weird year from the get go. I'm just so thankful to play at home. I'm really glad conference is here.

It's been a tough opening stretch in the conference. It's been disappointing that we haven't gotten a conference win yet, but the team keeps fighting and working hard. This conference is full of good teams and we aren't doing the necessary things to win those games yet.

It's been a real satisfying season for us. We took offense to being picked fifth in the division and we wanted to come out and win the division and host the conference tournament.

It's been a long time. Any time Post plays Tech, it's a big game. This is a great way for us to start conference play.

It's great to get three conference wins on the road. We have now put ourselves in position going into next weekend to be playing for at least a share of the Mountain West championship.

Its great to get the conference win. You can never have too many of those, plus it gives us a little extra momentum heading into next week.

It's great (to get that first win) going into conference play, ... And it's great going into a bye week, with the kids refreshed and knowing that the techniques they are working on in practice are paying off.

It's scary, it really is. Even the teams that you didn't split with during the conference season are solid teams.

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.

Flip Saunders

This is the third of our five steps, but this one might be the most important of the first four, because of the 2-2-1-1-1 format in the conference finals.

Katie Douglas

This is where I'm from. This is my roots. My friend, my family are all here, and for me to be able to get back for an Eastern Conference finals ... it's a dream come true for me.

David Jones

This is what they train for here. Usually we've had a week between conference and districts, but we've had two meets in this short period of time before. Four days is usually enough.

Charles Barkley

This is the most wide open I've ever seen the NBA playoffs. I mean, if the Clippers made it to the Western Conference finals, I wouldn't be shocked. If Denver made it to the Western Conference finals, I wouldn't be shocked.

This is the indoor conference championship. This is what you get your teams ready to do-compete at a very high level.

Al Groh

This kid generates energy and generates enthusiasm. He was a first-year starter at the position. He had his team in position to win the conference on the last day of the season. His team led the conference in offense and scored the most points in school history.

This kicks the issue to the next conference of CITES parties, when we'll hopefully have more info on poaching and the status of elephant populations.

They're in the same conference and they've played here. Will that be an advantage? Probably. But we didn't really talk about that to the players. We don't want to give them an out. Those are things we can't do anything about.

Jamie Dixon

They're going to take them, no matter what. They're not leading the conference in 3-point percentage, but in attempts, they are. They're going to make some 3s. Sometimes, they win some games when they don't shoot a high percentage.