Famous Quotes & Sayings

The conference is open to whoever wants to play really good the last half of the season and win it.

The conference is an important opportunity for us all to map out the quickest route to a game free of racism and discrimination.

The conference has some work to do ? as well as the schools....

The conference called for by his majesty the king will be held in the second half of April.

The idea of embarrassing your opponent or messing up a press conference or even rattling your opponent always comes up.

The euro is trying to grind higher but it's still in a range. The tone of a post-decision press conference will be important.

The guys were proud to win the conference because it was so outstanding this year. Our guys have done a good job. They've prepared well and played well and had a great regular season. Now we're getting ready to start a new season, and we'll get to work on that.

The guys are pumped. It's a conference rival.

The good thing for Pitt is that everyone will be taking on another loss in the last week of the season except for the conference champions.

The greatest part of this job is to show these younger kids their heritage. Heritage gets lost with a lot of these kids. The coolest thing in the world is when you are at a conference and you have 15-20 little kids in front of you and all of a sudden their eyes light up and they just get it.

The important thing about tonight's win is that it gave us the conference outright. We talked about how important that was before the game.

Jay Bilas

The difference is Villanova was a major conference team with pros on it.

Dan Fouts

A good showing of fan support Saturday would go a long way in helping us reach our goal- the conference championship.

You've got the No. 1 team and the No. 2 team in the conference playing each other; it's supposed to be a dogfight.

The game would be in the footprint of Conference USA.

The goal of the conference and the workshops is to stimulate dialogue between students on these issues so that they can return to their respective campuses and continue the dialogue.

The games are only going to get tougher as we make the stretch drive of our conference schedule. There's more on the line, and teams with better records than those we've faced thus far are also going after the same goal we are.

Dave Allen

The future is now for this team, and I hope that we can stay focused over the next four weeks, and stay healthy, so we can make a strong run at our conference championships.

All four of those guys are back from last year's team, and that extra year of experience really has helped. They know what it takes to win now, and hopefully they know what it takes to win a conference championship, too.

Emily Johnson

The idea is to come out strong. This is a conference game, so you have to play harder now.

You can't spot those teams 10 points like that and expect to be able to win. I don't know what it is about us. For some reason, since conference started, we start off slow, and it's one of the things we need to work on. We got to make sure we come out confident in our shooting.

You go through it all and the two conference championship games are being repeated. You come up here and you like to see new teams and you sure hate to see those same faces that see you over and over and know what you do. It's going to be another knock-down, drag-out.

The kids did a great job. Two conference road wins, I couldn't be more proud of how they played the last two games.

These kids want to win, ... You come out and put all the work into it that they do - and you're right, conference championships are probably gone and playoffs are probably gone - but you can still win. You can still win your last three games and have a positive feeling about yourself. There's lots of things that can still be positive.

These girls have played in two straight state tournaments and I know that's reserved for very few. We fell just short of the triple crown. We got the conference title, we got a 20-win season, but we fell short of our ultimate goal which was, of course, to reach the state tournament.

It's a new season once you get to Big South Conference play. I'm disappointed in our record right now but hopefully we'll be ready to play come Wednesday night.

It's a new season and we can't worry about what we did in the conference season. We still have the opportunity to kind of reach our goals and get to the NCAA tournament which is our ultimate goal.

Jim Brown

It'll give us a pretty good view on how everyone is playing. We will be able to get a pretty good read on the conference after this weekend.

It looked like we might finish third or fourth. Now I feel there's nobody in the conference that we can't beat. I think it's wide open.

Jay Wright

It kind of feels like a conference game to me. You know each other. You know what each of you is going to do. You just have to play the game.

Jay Wright

It kind of feels like a conference game. This just seems like a Big East game to me. I feel we're in the middle of January and we've got BC next.

It's great to start 1-0 in Conference USA. Now we need a big road win.

It seemed like a great fit for a conference like this. It was the largest turnout we ever had.