Ernie Nestor
Ernie Nestor
Ernie Nestoris an American college basketball coach, formally an assistant coach at the University of Missouri. Head coach Frank Haith named Nestor to this post in April, 2011. He was formerly the head coach of the Elon University and George Mason men's basketball teams. Nestor, a native of Philippi, West Virginia, was a long-time assistant at Wake Forest University, including an eight-year stint for head coach Dave Odom. He has also been on the coaching staffs of California, James Madison...
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We balanced our schedule out the best that we could. We are fortunate to have a lot of home games early. Our players are very excited about the upcoming season. Hopefully, we'll be taking our program to a good place.
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We feel very fortunate to have won the game.
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I've been doing this a lot of years. And I don't know if I've ever felt this bad with a season ending. These guys really gutted it out this season.
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We did a lot of things well. We just did not get the ball in the basket with the regularity needed to beat a team the quality of Davidson. I thought we played hard, but it just wasn't enough today.
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You always go into a game thinking, 'If we do these things, we'll be right there. We did those things. Our kids pulled it together.
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We were very fortunate to win the game tonight. We have spent a lot of time talking about adversity. We had four games go to the end and we've lost all four. ... We just didn't win, but we kept digging.
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Three out of our last four contests came down to the wire. That is why college basketball is the greatest sport in the world. You have to play every night.
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Basketball tournaments are great stuff. Kids careers end out here on jump shots.
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Basketball is that kind of game. This is why college basketball is the best game going because of the unpredictability.
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Like every team, we want to go to the NCAA tournament. Our seeding for the conference tournament is very important, as is the way you're playing. Hopefully, we'll have those in our favor when it counts.
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While it's a significant achievement, for sure, for our team, the consequences really don't change for us. We have to have one of the top two best records overall in the league, and we're still shooting for that.
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It's a significant achievement to win away from home. Winning on the road has not exactly been our forte this year.
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It's a great opportunity for us. We certainly appreciate all of the cooperation that we have received from everyone to bring this opportunity to this point. The staffs at both Wake Forest and the Greensboro Coliseum have been extremely helpful.
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Our schedule is very challenging. The early portion of the schedule will help us to identify our strengths and weaknesses and better prepare for the most important part of our season the conference schedule. Obviously, we want to become as successful as possible. We also want to improve and develop as much as possible as we go along.