Bob Thomason
Bob Thomason
Robert Lesley "Bob" Thomason, Jr.is a retired American college basketball coach. He coached the University of the Pacific Tigers men's basketball team for 25 seasons from 1988 to 2013...
cases good
In some cases they do a good job, and in some cases they don't do a very good job. The commissioner of the WAC just has too much say in what's going on.
guys hits kept played took
I don't know if we can play any better than we played tonight. Our guys took hits from them and kept on fighting.
easy games played
There haven't been a lot of easy games here over the years. They've always played well here.
create problems
You have to create match-up problems somewhere. If you don't have any advantages, it's going to be a long day.
hard win worked year
We want to win this thing by ourselves. We've worked hard all year to get into this position.
deserve emotion emotions great ready week
We really didn't deserve to win. We just didn't have great emotion and we had all week to get ready for this game. I'm amazed. I thought we were going to be excited.
good players
There are always good players out there. You just have to be in the right place at the right time.
figure scoring
When we're going to the bench, we just haven't been getting a lot of scoring lately. We have to figure out a way to do that.
chance coast east featured game late people start
If it's on ESPN, I'll start at midnight. I don't care. It was the No. 1 featured game, the only game going on at that time. It was late for the East Coast, but people on the East Coast watched, got a chance to see us.
basketball beat best four next people
We know people can beat us in our conference. That's why we have to see if we can play our best basketball over the next four games.
everywhere guys happens hungry people proud prove rest taken team whatever
Our guys are hungry to prove people wrong. This team has taken a lot of flak. Everywhere you turn, people are questioning how well this team can come around. I just said, 'Give it time. Give it time.' Well, here we are, and whatever happens the rest of the year, I'm going to be proud of this team.
basketball chance game great guys handled last minutes ncaa perfect played three tournament
Our guys played perfect basketball over the last three minutes. The first game of a tournament is a little tougher, but we handled it. We got through it, and now we know we need to play a great 40 minutes for a chance to go to the NCAA Tournament.
active christian focused great player
I thought Christian was really a great player tonight. He was real aggressive, real active and real focused on what he had to do.
deserved game win year
I thought this was the first game all year we deserved to win and didn't.