Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. How we do there determines what we get in the regional tournament. Hopefully we can keep it going.

We have the next couple of weeks to work on some things before the conference tournament. We will be able to take a few lessons from these two matches and see what we can do at the tournament.

We were here last week. I am really proud of this team. We were picked sixth and won the conference. We made it to the finals of the conference tournament. I think habit is a big part of the game. We go through routines as a team. We know the facility. We know the locker rooms better than anyone. We know the altitude. We hope to get fans from the conference. We feel really comfortable here.

Today's match was a good start to our conference play. The entire team played well as a whole today.

We needed some positives and confidence heading back into conference play after the break, and we got it tonight. The girls played really hard and I'm proud of them.

We need your support on March 1. Help us pack the house when we take on SFA for one of the top seeds in the conference tournament.

We need to win out in conference games for a home playoff game.

Sylvia Hatchell

I would hope that (the NCAA selection committee) wouldn't hold one team in our conference back because of one or two others that got No. 1 seeds.

Nick Holt

I would not have been interested. I think it's an excellent conference. I think it provides us stability, and I think we can grow with the conference It helps us with recruiting. It has a great reputation, and I think it fits our school perfectly.

Miami wasn't in a conference at that time. Miami was an independent,

Who knows what's going to come out of the trustees' conference call?

When the (Big 7) was formed, it was considered to be a power conference. It's lived up to its billing. It's been our most difficult conference to win because every team is good.

Bob Thomason

You listen to that all year. Digger Phelps said he saw the Missouri Valley Conference and said it was 'sorry.' He said that all year.

Steve Lavin

When you're looking at a school you consider the recruiting base, the resources, the facilities, the conference affiliation, the environment. There's no better environment.

We've known for the last couple months that the road to the (American) Conference Finals goes through Gwinnett. And now we have our chance. It should be a great series.

Mike Brady

We're where we want to be. We've played a tough schedule. We won our conference and if we want to win state, we have to go through Carmel. If we play with intensity for 80 minutes, and I mean a full 80 minutes, we can play with them.

We're waiting to see what happens in the conference committee.

Usually the conference meet comes down to how you qualify for the finals in the running events. For the most part, we did pretty well. There was one event where I thought we should've qualified and didn't. But for the most part, the kids I expected to be in the top eight, they were.

Jack Donovan

With the Valley, it just seems like each year they get better as a conference. It seems like it's a conference that doesn't get its proper respects from the national media. But it's a terrific conference and has super high-caliber basketball. Absolutely, there's a lot of excitement with this year's tournament.

We put a lot of emphasis on the conference meet. To me it's the most important meet.

We hope to be part of the Nutmeg Conference next year. It will make us a little more competitive.

We have to refocus on the conference race. We have a good opportunity to finish strong.

We're definitely looking at Georgia and not the SEC Tournament. We would like to get to 10 wins in the conference and be in double figures.

We're definitely looking at Georgia and not the SEC Tournament. We'd like to get to 10 wins in the conference and be in double figures.

We're a little banged up right now with some injuries to key runners. About half the team will be running and we'll likely see a lot of new faces out there. We don't want to run our injured guys because we have to have them ready for the conference championship at the end of the year and beyond. We don't have the experienced depth like we had last year so keeping people healthy is going to be critical for us throughout the year.

We emphasize that to be a good team, you have to have good senior leadership to go far in the conference and in the tournament. We've had that so far and that will likely be important for us in the next few weeks for us to be successful.

Paul DePodesta

We'd still be having this discussion (on the conference call) sometime this month.

We really wanted to have the 1 seed. Had we won Wednesday and we're playing for the conference championship; that lends a little more weight to (tonight).

We have some questions to answer. We're fairly young this year and we'll make mistakes early. The conference gets better each year as schools continue to upgrade in recruiting and facilities.

We do this all the time. We pay them for their time. Sometimes they do conference calls. Sometimes they prepare slide shows.

Well it looked like they really wanted to get two Big Ten teams together. Michigan couldn't fit it in the schedule and luckily Michigan State was willing to move our conference game to Thursday. To play in a game of this magnitude, the publicity you get on a national scale, it's just a great position to be in.

We need this game to kind of get rolling before we go into the rest of conference play.

We are doing a mini-bidding conference on May 19 and, thereafter, as soon as we can put the paperwork together we'll sign the deals.