Famous Quotes & Sayings

We have played only one home game. When you do that with freshmen and sophomores, this is what happens.

This was a solid start for us. Our veterans played well and the freshmen did a great job in their first competition. They had high intensity and they did a great job of putting opponents away when they had the chance.

John Calipari

We've got a young team, freshmen and sophomores and Rodney. But we've got a competitive group.

We have six freshmen on the team and they are really talented, and I knew we were going to be good, but you never know how we will do until we get out there. But potentially, the sky is the limit for this team.

Travis Buck

We met with the new guys on the team and made them realize you don't have to be as talented to go far. It's hard to live up to expectations. I told the freshmen not to listen and to just go out and play.

We're going to solidify a lineup. There was a lot of things that went on last weekend. We just wanted to see what guys were made of. We realized that some of the freshmen weren't quite ready yet, and I think in the same aspect, we have some older guys that maybe started wondering where they stand with the team.

She just woke up. We've been working hard on hitting and the young girls are taking control. That's nice to see from freshmen and sophomores.

We like being on top and we like people hunting for us, because that means we're doing things well. I'm not going to take anything away from our season. We're 24-6 and my second year -- with those freshmen that did well last year -- we had seven losses. So we're happy with where we are. North Idaho, looking back now, one of those wins would have won it for us outright.

I was really proud of our freshmen tonight. They really stepped it up tonight and was a big part of this win.

Tommy Amaker

Because we had the nucleus of our team win that tournament two years ago -- the juniors and seniors right now were freshmen and sophomores -- I worry about that being more of a negative than a positive. These kids have recognized that they've already done that.

I don't think we've ever had a team where we've relied on freshmen like this season. They play with more maturity and poise than their age.

I don't think we're that young. We have strong leadership from seniors like Jen Gardner and Katie Dean, and some of the freshmen are contributing already. We have a nice mix of youth and veterans.

I feel positive about this team. These kids won titles as freshmen (frosh championship), sophomores (JV) and juniors (NCL I) so they are used to hanging up a pennant.

Bruce Johnston

We've recorded over our voices once and double the harmonies, make them thick. The Four Freshmen do that.

Two minutes into the second half, I think we had three freshmen who played the rest of the game until Kelsey fouled out (late).

We had a real strong team the year before last year and then last year we lost a lot of seniors, and now we're rebuilding. This year we have 10 freshmen so we are rebuilding even more.

We had a really young group there and we had to lean on them and said, 'You're freshmen but you can't play like one because we need you.' That's very similar to what we're doing here. It gives me a lot of hope because that group went on after we were gone and competed very well at the Horizon League level.

Mike Riley

To start three freshmen is a scary thing. They took their lumps, made some plays and got better.

The reason for that was, the season before I got there, it was the first year freshmen could play. All those stats that had been collected, those people had been playing for three years.

We competed well. Baylor obviously is good, but I'm pleased with the way we fought. And to have two freshmen go out and get wins, it shows how they're improving.

We have gotten big minutes from our sophomores, juniors and freshmen all season long.

We have good, young, talented kids. And we have some freshmen and sophomores who will step in and play right away.

We have freshmen who have made a huge impact right away. The younger kids are just starting to tap into their talent.

This year, we have a lot of new girls and freshmen on the team. This win is a nice stepping stone. The girls are improving every time and we can't be more pleased with their progress.

We also have six promising freshmen out this year, which is the most we've had in a while.

We got lucky and a lot of talented seniors and freshmen (stepped up). And it's never hurts to get some help from someone else.

The pattern we see is when students have a rough freshmen year, they come back for their sophomore year. But if they have the same pattern, they start to lose hope and start looking at other options; sometimes it?s night school, sometimes it?s a GED.

We have three freshmen kicking for us this year and all of them are going to do something.

We have three freshmen in their first race at 3 miles. They did well, considering.

Three freshmen are going to start. In past years we haven't had any.

Two years ago we started seven freshmen, and we don't have any freshmen starting this year.

Having all those freshmen at one time, I knew before the year even started that somebody was going to leave. I didn't know who it would be, but somebody wasn't going to be happy with playing time.

Guys are playing their role, more people are playing then ever, we're playing more freshmen and those guys are stepping up. All things are pointing in the right direction.