Pat Flannery
Pat Flannery
Pat Flanneryis a former head men's basketball coach at Bucknell University. He was born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Pat attended Pottsville Area High School and graduated in 1976. He was a standout guard on the Bucknell team and lead the Bison to several league championships before graduating in 1980. While the head men's basketball coach of the Bucknell Bison, Flannery had many accomplishment. In the 2006 regular season, for example, the Bison went undefeated in Patriot league play. Even more impressively,...
ask bit financial kid pay rainbow sit steak
Because of the financial situation, we used to get to the end of the steak dinner, and then you ask them to pay 42,000 dollars, and that was usually a deal-breaker. Now you can sit there and you know that, at the end, there's a little bit of a rainbow if it's a kid you want.
game taking
I did feel like the game was there for the taking from the beginning.
happened realize share
You have to keep going and realize it's part of life. In that, we want everyone to share in the things that have happened to us.
ahead believe came enjoying front task
This time, we know the task that is in front of us. We came here to play two games. Believe me, we're enjoying it, but we're not getting ahead of ourselves.
cannot felt learned minutes quick speed
With 10 minutes to go, we felt like we had the game. But we learned what that kind of speed is. You cannot simulate how quick they are.
either embrace focused rankings stayed task team
I told the team they can either embrace the rankings or get cocky. I told them they haven?t been (cocky) all year. They have stayed focused on the task at hand.
ninth played
That?s pretty impressive, nationally, that they think of us as a ninth seed. I think it?s recognition of who we played and who we beat.
game great kids left
It was a great game. The kids left it all out there. It was the kind of game where you thought you had it, and it got away.
biggest enjoying fun kids
The biggest thing for me has been enjoying my kids and enjoying the game. It has been a lot of fun this season.
chemistry motion situation
It?s a chemistry situation defensively. The way we play, it does take experience, just like with a motion offense.
We did it the right way, we scheduled the right way.
game taking
We're going to do what we've done all season. We're taking them one game at a time.
When we get back, we'll have some beers.
forward game great historic honored looking ncaa playing program quite tickled year
We're honored and tickled about playing a 9-8 game in the NCAA Tournament. It's quite historic for us as a program and we're just real happy. We've had a great year and we're looking forward to the tournament.