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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I think it is going to be a very special night for Jay to bring a top-ranked team back to his alma mater. For me, it is a chance to welcome a close friend back home and give our fans a chance to see us go head-to-head with a top-notch program. I know for our players it is a game they are really looking forward to.
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I almost threw them out. It was more like (the players saying), 'When's the game going to get here?
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I'm not a guy that goes anywhere, but tonight I am.
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The biggest thing for me has been enjoying my kids and enjoying the game. It has been a lot of fun this season.
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It was just the kind of thing where we didn't read it well. That was a miscommunication, and they happen in the game.
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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.
They look so big on film. They?re all so long and athletic.
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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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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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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.
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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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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.