Dane Bradshaw
Dane Bradshaw
great high
It's great to be such a high seed. Now we need to go play that way.
again deep depressed feeling good locker maybe room silent
I haven't been around a locker room that silent and depressed in a long time. You really don't take much good out of this. But maybe it's good we have this feeling right now, because we can't have it again if we want to go deep in the (NCAA) Tournament.
control game statement
It was more than a statement game. It was a championship game for us. We wanted to control our destiny.
battle game mental percent team
No team is 100 percent right now. That's the part of the game you have to battle through. It's about mental toughness.
blessing next opportunity senior situation treat year
I told everyone to treat this like your senior year because you don't know what next year will bring. To be in this situation and have this opportunity is a real blessing for us all.
becoming buy clothes early event football girls people saying shirt starting talking treat
It's amazing. People are starting to treat it like a football game. Girls are saying they have to buy some new clothes or a new shirt for the game, and they're talking about how early they have to get to the game. It's becoming an all-day event now.
bath buttons flying gave laughed
It was kind of funny, buttons were flying everywhere. We all laughed and gave him a Gatorade bath in there.
beat both mean regular season team twice
Both games, they were right there with us. Just because you beat a team twice during the regular season doesn't mean they're the same team.
board coach defense dug hole ourselves puts
We just dug ourselves too big a hole in the first half. Coach (Pearl) puts defense and rebounding on the board before every game, and we haven't been able to do that consistently.
capable deep excited game next realize scouting team
You get excited when you see the No. 2 next to your name. But when you realize what a capable team Winthrop is, when we look deep into the scouting report, you realize that no game is going to be easy.
football game students talking
This game had become an event. The students have been talking about this like it was a football game.
basketball couple minutes solid sweet talking
A couple of more minutes of solid basketball and we're talking about the Sweet 16.
coach coaching contagious few game leads lost pearl picking starting telling versus wisconsin
Coach Pearl was telling me about a game versus Wisconsin he had. He said that was one of the few leads he's lost in his coaching career. We're picking up on the coaches' mentality, and it's starting to become contagious around here.
afraid coach crack feeling hard joke seconds
Coach is not afraid to crack a joke in the huddle with 30 seconds left. There's just something about it, it's hard to explain. But there's a feeling that even if we're down with 40 seconds to play, we're going to find a way to win.