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,...
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Teams just haven?t shot the ball well against us. We have five guys who believe in playing defense. They work hard at it. It?s an attitude, a way to establish themselves.
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I think going to Pitt and winning and St. Joe's got the ball rolling and as we went along we got confidence.
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I think going to Pitt and winning and Saint Joe's got the ball rolling and as we went along we got confidence.
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I thought the tone was set at 1:19 when Knight drove the ball and they called a foul on Abe. The clock stopped, and they're scoring points. That's the worst thing.
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I think we have to take care of the ball in order to get some quick shots against them. They are obviously great athletes, great players. They get the ball up and down very quickly. We are going to have to find a way to work with that so we can get back and give ourselves a chance to defend.
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People haven't shot the ball well against us. That's what happens sometimes. As far as what we want to do and how we want to do it, we have five guys that believe in playing the way we are playing defensively, and that attitude is what allows us to establish ourselves sometimes.
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We just wanted to enjoy it for so long.
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We just had to keep grinding and grinding.
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The way it's gone down here, a dogfight to the finish, last shot would have pleased me just fine. We have that much respect for Lehigh. The way the last couple minutes went, I was glad our kids did keep their composure. This is a confident bunch. Not cocky, but confident.
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Brown has been tremendous all year long, at the beginning, I don't know if he was wound up a little bit or what. He made some great plays down the stretch and he really came through at the end.
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The Thomas kid is doing it for them lately.
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To be honest, we don't know a whole lot yet about Arkansas, other than that they played very good basketball down the stretch.
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To be given a nine seed, the highest ever for a team from the Patriot League, shows that our program earned the respect of the selection committee and college basketball followers across the country.
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You knew they were going to hit some deep shots, and we just had to keep grinding and grinding. I thought Donald Brown on the boards in the second half really mixed it up. I thought we played with great energy in the second half.