Famous Quotes & Sayings

You look at the conference results last year, and that's where we deserve to be. Those teams don't know us.

Today our season starts over. Hit your reset button, it's 0-0. No matter what you do up to this point, conference is all that matters.

Tim Hunt

I am extremely sorry for the remarks made during the recent Women in Science lunch at the world conference of science journalists in Seoul, Korea.

We'd like to win these two games, but the conference games on Saturday and Sunday are more important for us.

We'd like to have been in the championship game, but we won two out of three and at times we played good basketball. We were disappointed but hopefully this gives us some momentum for next week's conference play.

We'd like to have a couple of those early ones back. We took our lumps early to figure out some things, but we're right where we want to be at the start of the conference season.

We were kind of spotty in our last game; fortunately a few of the guys stepped up. It's just another two good games to help prepare us for our conference season.

We were kind of irritated when we heard everyone saying how wide open this tournament was. We were the most consistent team all year. We?d only lost three games and two were to these guys in overtime. We wanted to win this ?wide-open? conference tournament.

We definitely want to play in the postseason. Postseason is very important for this young team. Even the conference tournament is important for us to get them that experience.

We worked hard with ESPN and Conference USA to find alternative dates for the Houston game but the final decision was to play the game on Sunday, Nov. 13,

Kamala Harris

I convened the first-ever national training conference for prosecutors on how to promote and deal with hate crime issues in terms of prosecutions and also protocol for defeating the gay panic defense.

The only team you can guarantee is going to miss the playoffs in the Western Conference is Phoenix. Somebody's going to be this year's Calgary and we think it could be Nashville.

We play New Orleans, it's always a battle. I told our guys we can't look at the records in conference play...New Orleans has had a tough situation all year long and I am impressed with how hard they play.

We play in a league when sometimes five of the teams in our division are nationally ranked. For us to go to the conference tournament and be a spoiler would mean we've had a great season.

We play 18 conference games and it's such a long season. We learned a lot from that last season.

We probably should have had a few more in the win column. If you look at the second half of conference play, we were as strong as anyone.

We pretty much knew these three guys would be going regardless of what happened at the conference tournament. All three of them have legitimate shots at top three or four finishes.

I thought we had a good meet with some great performances. I feel good going into the conference championships with our level of health and our marks where they are.

I think we did the job we had to do. We led wire to wire in a conference game and won, which is tough in the WVIAC.

I think we have to realize that we lost six seniors. You can say what you want, but next year we won't have six seniors. We will be young and have new faces. We can't go into next year thinking that we will be able to repeat finishing second in the conference and go to the conference championship again. We have to understand that it might take a little time.

Jamie Dixon

I think we should have nine teams in the NCAA tournament. I think we should set a record. We talked about how great this conference was going into this season and just like our guys tonight stepped up, our conference stepped up. We deserve nine bids. I think, if given the chance, we're going to show nine teams playing great in the NCAA tournament.

Kenny Smith

I think that any other year he would be playing. But because (there's) so many great forwards in the West, it's difficult to do that. But (Paul) is one of the top five guards in the Western Conference without question.

Gerry Hunsicker

I think as much as anything, this has raised the confidence level of our players. I don't think there was any question this was totally unexpected by everyone, including the players ... To see the excitement on their faces in the Clemens press conference ...

We're learning, and as we recognize things, we'll get better. Our goal is always to be better by the end of the season and come conference tournament time.

We're not getting the job done and hopefully we can turn it around now that we are in the second half of our conference schedule.

We still have a good shot at getting into the conference tournament and that's the most important thing.

We're colliding awfully early. I don't think it will decide the conference championship, but it will definitely set the tone the rest of the way.

We understand what we need to do to get better before conference tournament time comes in April.

We've got to feel really good about (the conference title). We really do.

We've got the people we need to win the conference again. Each player knows his role. We've got confidence in each other and we pick each other up. That's something we haven't always had in the past.

With our conference up for grabs, a win like this is just what we needed.

Pete Lembo

Without question, this is a very challenging schedule. The Southern Conference is an outstanding league from top to bottom.

We want to win our conference and also win our regional. We host a sectional this year, and we want to be in it.