This is tough. We've noticed that in our conference every game is up in the air. Everyone is capable of being beat. It would have been nice to beat a nationally ranked team.

Jackie Lee

This is a big win for us. Especially with three straight road games coming up. And it was a big deal to beat a ranked opponent. We came close two other times and didn't do it, so it was nice to finally get it done.

Anthony Farmer

We knew what they could do coming into this game. They're good. They are a good-ranked team at any division. They've got enough talent to play at any level.

Steve Jaskulske

I knew they were a good team. But they're not ranked and that's what the kids look at.

Gene Pingatore

We had a really good day. We beat two AAA teams and just lost to Grundy, who is ranked second in the state, by two matches. It was a great effort today by the kids.

Don Shuler

We have to stay hungry. Our goal wasn't just to be ranked. Our goal is to win a Big Ten championship. We feel we're as good as anyone in the country.

Courtney Sims

There's no pressure on us. We're going to play a team that's ranked above us, so there's no pressure.

Martin Klimes

We already know how big football is. Basketball at a lot of schools is ranked down there. But I will say the onus is on us to put out a winning program.

Jason Vetter

We had a lot of people contribute, a lot of people play well. Everybody has to feel pretty confident that we can beat a ranked team.

Muffet Mcgraw

We play in a league when sometimes five of the teams in our division are nationally ranked. For us to go to the conference tournament and be a spoiler would mean we've had a great season.

Pryor Orser

We looked at the schedule and saw it was Lincoln-Way East. They're not ranked and you kind of underestimate teams. That's when you get upset.

Kevin Dillard

Playing at number one all year, he's had to raise the level of his game, and he's done that. He's forcing (his teammates) to come along with him. Playing a lot of nationally ranked opponents, he's gotten experience and realized that he can be as good as them.

Michael Bates

It's a typical case of us looking ahead. The state rankings came out today and we were ranked fourth, but we certainly didn't play like it.

Anthony Campanella

He's ranked No. 2 (in California), but I think he's going to win for sure. He's really good.

Adin Due'as

Somebody told me USC had dropped and I didn't believe them, ... How can you be the No. 1 team in the country, win five road games, three against ranked opponents, and lose ground? How does that happen?

Pat Haden

Obviously we hope we're ranked at the end of the season, but we are really excited. Right now our goal is just to get into the tournament. We are on track to do that, but we have to keep playing well and getting better.

Scott Mossman

It felt really good to beat a top-ranked team in convincing fashion. It showed we're not overrated.

Venoy Overton

England will feel they might have pushed India close if they had a full squad, but they are what they are: ranked seventh in the world.

Angus Fraser

This weekend was a big conference weekend for us. Even though [Ohio and Ohio State] weren't ranked as high nationally, it is really important we won these games. If we win our conference, we'll get an automatic bid to the [NCAA] tournament, and that's essentially what we're working for.

Mary Key

We are ranked ninth in the world (by volume).

Su Birch

We haven't beaten a team that was ranked so high by as many points. Usually, they're pretty close games. I think we just played an excellent all-around game. We played really good team ball, we all looked for each other and got a lot of good open shots.

Monique Currie

The Clippers are ranked number one in Canada. And I think we could have very easily won that game. The boys were upbeat and positive and they picked up some valuable experience that will serve them well later.

Bruno Campese

Stony Brook had one of the top-ranked offenses coming into this game. Everybody worked as a group today, and we're molding as a defense.

Michael Culver

They're the eighth-ranked team in the state. To us, it was a match where we had nothing to lose. I think we rattled their cage. I don't think we should hang our heads.

Paul Kurtz

Northwestern is always very good. They are ranked 51st in the nation.

Bill Richards

I was ranked No. 2 in the world and then I was out for 15 months between my shoulder surgery and my parents getting in a motorcycle accident in 2002.

Tommy Haas

We try not to think of numbers and rank. We have a team with enough talent that if we wrestle our best, we can beat a team ranked higher than us, like Cornell.

Matt Valenti

This is a very talented team coming in. They're ranked No. 9 in the nation and it's not a fluke. They're very deep and there's not really one or two players we can focus in on.

Joddie Gleason

It's definitely going to be a test, but we've proven that we can beat a ranked team.

Robert Hite

It was ultimately her decision. But we all sat down and ranked the schools in terms of academics and athletics.

Christine Ferguson

The number one ranked team is playing the number 10 ranked team. That's the reality.

Dav Whatmore

That does surprise me. We lost a lot of players and were we expecting to be ranked lower than last year. I've been really surprised, especially in our defense because that's where we lost a lot of people.

John Kierstead

It was a little bit of revenge, I guess. (State) will be a totally new experience. It somewhat boosts my confidence knowing Pyle was high ranked in state.

Jayson Swanson

I don't think we're the sixth-ranked team in the country. I think when we play well, we're better than that.

Roland Thornqvist

That was a hard one to lose. The kid was ranked fourth in the state and he was dead at the end. If I could have got those two points, I think I could have took him in overtime.

Jon Zofkie

If it's not the toughest, it's the second toughest with two or three guys ranked nationally, so that validates it.

Will Pellum

We should be ranked in the state for the first time ever this year.

Joe Konrad

We can't whine about nothing. We just got to grow up and stop whining and complaining about stuff, and make plays. I mean we got an offense that goes from No. 1 to not even ranked. I don't know, man. It's human nature to bitch and complain, but we've got to get over that.

Frank Middleton

Washington D.C. ranked No. 1 in very large metro areas because the percentage of office-type workers is very high, given government agencies and big business centers. New York City ranked #6 because on a per-capita basis, broadband Internet access isn't as prevalent as in other cities.

William E. Giles

Our guys have heard a lot about their guys and (Brandon) Graham (the Detroit News' No. 1-ranked player in the preseason) and it kind of gets in their heads.

Wade Cook

They're undefeated and the #1 ranked team in North Dakota. Their program is very strong.

Jeff Perreault

We weren't even ranked coming into the season, so we're trying to prove a point. We want to keep proving that point - that we're for real.

Corey Brewer

I thought we got lucky. Amity's playing a lot better. When you're a ranked team everybody comes after you and that's what Amity did. We were lucky to keep enough composure to get out of here with a win.

Cliff Toney

Ajax was probably a little surprised by the level. It was another level for sure. We're definitely playing a higher-ranked (opponent) in this FIFA team. We're looking a little bit up in some areas. Canada is very physical. It's amazing what improvements they've made in physical conditioning. It's a hard style to match. It's like a boxing match and there's 20 pounds we're giving up.

Leonardo Cuellar Rivera

It's a huge game, not only because it's Homecoming, but beating someone as highly ranked as Beckley gives you huge bonus (ratings) points because you know they are only going to continue to win more ball games.

Chip Mcmillian

Right now it's my top choice. Middlebury is considered a Division III Ivy League school and it's ranked eighth in the top 10 of liberal arts schools in the nation.

Dave Demarkis

We are currently the third-most profitable airline in the world despite being ranked 32nd in terms of most passengers carried.

Richard Reed

More than any time we can remember in the past, the voters really seem to be checked out. Maybe we ranked 12th, but few voters anywhere are paying any attention.

Ray Mcnally

Right now he is kind of a dark horse. There are a couple of studs (ranked) ahead of him. He's got the skills, he got the tools. He's going to have to put a heck of a run in February, but he's completely capable of it.

Jon Garvin

Let's not kid ourselves. The entrance into the Big East Conference was primarily the result of positive visibility and awareness of the nationally ranked basketball teams under Bob Huggins . . .

Richard Katz

When you're a lower ranked team or an underdog, you can have a go-for-it attitude. You have nothing to lose when you're in that situation. You don't have anything to lose, you don't have to hold back.

Suzanne Yoculan

The quality of our game isn't anything that we have to change. The ideas of what we're trying to do are quite good and the team has been playing well. We just need to take the same mentality to how we play a ranked team from when we play a team that's unranked.

Kevin Boyd

They say stats are for losers and I guess that's what it was. Because we were concerned about where we ranked on defense because if we didn't have something to motivate us, we would have been as lackluster as our offense.

Eugene Robinson

I think being undefeated is quite an accomplishment. We have raced 11 of the top-20 ranked teams so far. It gives us a little more confidence going into NCAA knowing we've raced and done well.

Erin Cafaro

It's not about moral losses. We didn't care what they were ranked. We wanted to win. Little things won this game, but we showed we can play with any team in the state.

Zack Stevenson

Even in Asia, China is ranked below those first-tier countries and regions in the level of golf, and we need to get up a gear as quickly as possible.

Zhang Xiaoning

We got a lot out of this tournament. We got a look at some teams we'll see down the road. We got to play some great basketball teams that we normally don't get to see that are state-ranked.

Zach Keene