Famous Quotes & Sayings

Obviously we want to win every game. If you sweep the first half of the conference that means you control your destiny in the second half.

Obviously, we wanted the win to separate ourselves in the conference race. But we're trying to get a good push to get ready for the state tournament.

Obviously, we're taking away a lot of positives for the season. We've got a national scoring leader, conference player of the year and we're one of the top scoring teams in the nation. I think we're seeing a constant improvement in this team. The way the season ended doesn't diminish what the accomplishments were this year.

No one's invincible. Everyone's beatable. You're going to lose players every year. They lost players like everybody else. They've got key guys returning, but there are definitely teams in the conference that could knock them off, and I wouldn't really be surprised if that happened.

My goal is to win a conference championship. I've been here for four years and we have won no titles. I hope this year is going to be good, like in a movie where there is a happy ending.

Thomas Ferguson

My heart sinks every time these guys have a conference call.

Now, we have to win out and hope somebody else can knock off Elmwood. We have a realistic shot at winning the conference championship.

Obviously it's without doubt the top 4A conference in the state. We can't worry so much about the team we're playing. We just have to work on what we can do.

The only good thing about this game is that it doesn't count towards the Southern Connecticut Conference playoffs. It isn't one of our crossover games, so we're still 3-1 in that category.

The prime minister is going to hold a roundtable conference with Kashmir leaders.

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.

We've never been there before so I'm not sure what it feels like to be there. We started conference play 0-2 and things weren't looking good. We've come so far since January as a team and individuals.

Should we have two teams from this conference get into the playoffs? Yes, I think so.

She had problems at conference and was hurting. She just couldn't pull it off this week which is frustrating, especially since she's a senior.

Since we are playing three conference games a weekend and some mid-week games, we have to have the pitching depth we do. It's nice to have because you know when someone gets tired you'll have someone else to come in and always make something happen.

She probably could have played the second game, but since it wasn't conference play, we decided to give her a break.

Rick Pitino

Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and probably Creighton and Missouri State should be in (the NCAA Tournament).

Davin Joseph

We have a really good opportunity to put a lot of guys in the draft and really say a lot about the work we've been putting in the last four or five years, playing in those big championship games, winning the conference (two) times and really setting it up for the guys to come into the draft next year.

We haven't been to the conference semifinals in two years. A conference championship is still our goal, though.

This win kept us from being mathematically eliminated (for the conference title). If we had lost, we would have been eliminated with four losses. It was a huge win for seeding purposes for the playoffs.

Losing that game means if we are going to win a conference championship, we don't have any room for error any more. We probably need to win all of them.

Look, UTEP was 11-3 in the conference for a reason. They had a lot to do in the difference in winning and losing. UTEP is a tournament-type team.

Last year, some of the money went toward their conference title rings. They use the money for many things - maybe a meal on the road. It's just a way to help the team.

Seattle was expected to win. Pittsburgh went through the one, two, and three seeds, and a lot of people think the AFC from top-to-bottom was a lot better conference than the NFC.

She's been low for us for about a month or so. She's been playing real well lately. She shot a 34 in a round out here two weeks ago and won our conference this week. She's doing great.

Andy Kennedy

We're going in there on Senior Night and a must-win situation for them. We have more work that has to be done. We have two opportunities plus the conference tournament to get that done.

E. B. White

We're glad to be in the conference tournament finals and have a shot at winning it.

We're not crazy, we know that teams in this conference are going to fight back tooth-and-nail. They've got good players and they did that.

Like every team, we want to go to the NCAA tournament. Our seeding for the conference tournament is very important, as is the way you're playing. Hopefully, we'll have those in our favor when it counts.

The political process in the Congo is due to end with the swearing in of a president on 30 June. The conference will be held after this.

The past two games have been a huge confidence boost. After we lost two games on the road, we had a sense of urgency because we knew the conference is going to get tougher and tougher as we go.