Ricardo Patton
Ricardo Patton
Ricardo Maurice Pattonis an American college basketball coach and the former head men's basketball coach at Northern Illinois University. On March 9, 2011, NIU announced that Patton would not return as their head coach for the 2011–12 season, it is unclear whether he resigned or was fired. Prior to this, he was the head coach at the University of Colorado. He was hired as head coach for the Buffaloes on March 5, 1996, just days before the Big Eight Conference...
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We have done well on that all season. We have not had to rely on one guy for our 3-point shots.
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The thing you learn from winning is how to win, and they are a very disciplined basketball team. I think if you look at the guys that make big plays for them, they are the guys who have been pretty consistent all season long.
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What a great crowd. We had a great student section tonight and I want to thank everyone for coming out. I thought our guys really fed off that energy.
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I think all these guys have a chance to play. I think that was part of the attractiveness of CU, part of the reason they chose CU, because they could step in and contribute.
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I saw him jump in the air and go for the rebound. And the guy slid under him and he flipped over the guy's back. It looked like everyone that should have seen it just turned away and didn't want to see it. I was concerned for my player.
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I saw (Freeman) jump in the air and the guy slipped under him on the guy's back. And it seemed like everyone who should have seen it, turned away. They didn't want to see it. I was concerned for my player.
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Kansas did an excellent job of pushing the ball up the floor. The difference in their break and most other teams' is that their big guys really run the floor. So we gave up too many fast-break points and were dominated on the glass.
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Any time you have guys that are going through the league for the fourth time, they know what to expect.
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If my guys are wise, they'll listen to someone who's done it. Someone who will explain how he became that efficient.
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I don't see any harm in it. . . . We have guys who miss free throws who are really good shooters.
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What Texas A&M beating Texas really means to me is it just confirms what I said all along - this league is not down. There are some awful good teams in this league.
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We signed these kids early so this is not an evaluation. We're just here for support.
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Early on, he had one foot in and one foot out the door.
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Pray . . . I'm going to start there. You've just got to compete. I guess if I had to wish for just one thing to occur with our guys, it's just that we compete . . . It's going to be a physically played basketball game; that's just the nature of how they play. We just have to bow our backs and be ready to respond to that.