It's an accomplishment to beat two teams we were playing with today.
Katherine Mowat
There were a few close matches where we might have been able to pull out a win, but we just didn't match-up that well with Connellsville. Everyone wrestled tough and it's always good to see how you stack up with the top teams.
Darrin Cummings
We tried to get a schedule with teams we could compete with.
Lane Larive
If we let (being) the top seed go to our heads and we come out really cocky, other teams that really come after us will eventually beat us. If we go in there and play hard like we do every game, we'll come out on top.
Jasmine Walker
We have a lot of respect for Florida. They are one of the top teams in the country. In fact, they were ranked No. 1 in the country going into the tournament. It really gives the guys a lot of confidence, and it really raises the bar as far as expectations.
Billy Chadwick
On the whole, to capture the bronze medal is really what we wanted. Especially since we graduated 75 percent of last year's team. It was quite an improvement against some very difficult teams. Huntington and Brentwood brought back their entire team from last year. Overall it was a good day.
Herb Mones
A lot of teams, a situation like the one me and Stephen are in would be a problem or a distraction.
Deshaun Foster
For us this was very big because everybody saw Cuba as a smaller team. They thought of the other teams, greater teams, bigger teams, powerful. They thought we could never win against Venezuela, that we did not have any possibility or any chances. And here you have it. We know how to play under pressure.
Frederich Cepeda
However, putting three teams in the top six of a national championships is not an inconsiderable achievement.
Neil Miller
In the district meet, you have to have good depth. We've had good depth the last few years. The key for us this weekend was we knew where we were seeded and we knew what we had to do. You don't beat teams like Plano West and Flower Mound without having a strong roster from top to bottom.
Craig Harris
They're the teams in this league that are going to get those calls. They get those calls, so you have to learn how to play through them.
Sean Marshall
Just the way we gave up the goals, mistakes that we couldn't clear. It was like there were three different teams at one point out there. It was an all-around performance — nobody played up to their expectations.
Luis Carmona
I'm all for it. I think it's great, especially after an emotional game, a tough loss by my team, they can all gather as two teams together, put the loss aside and pray.
Chuck Mcbreen
For our juniors and seniors, I think playing those types of teams the past couple years helped prepare them for this season.
Bo Williams
It's nice to be mentioned in the same breath as some of the teams in the 70s. When you're playing well, winning can be contagious.
Brendan Callahan
There is also a lot of duplication of aid. Aid agencies are scrambling their teams, but in many cases they are reaching where aid has already reached. There is a vacuum of coordination.
Brian Heidel
We had a tough non-region schedule with three straight local opponents, then having to go on the road. Three-one is a quality record against the teams that we have faced so far, and that gives us some confidence going into region play.
Andy Palmer
We've always kind of made an agreement that our sub-varsity teams wouldn't leave the area. We might go to Shelton or Elma with our C-team, but we won't go to Tacoma.
Tim Graham
Both teams are fragile going into this game. The confidence level is fragile.
Red Berenson
I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American readers.
Peter Robinson
I'm very excited with the quality of the non-conference teams we have on our schedule, ... To play at Mississippi State and to host Creighton, to potentially face Wake Forest on their floor, those are the types of games that should help prepare our team for the rigors of conference play.
George Mason
I think a lot of teams knew the answers, but we're more aggressive. There's a risk/reward factor. Something like this, we're very competitive.
Peter Nelson
I think teams accepted bids here because it makes sense to play good teams early in the season, ... It's being run in a classy, big-time way, which is really fun.
John Dunning
We are a small city from a small country but we have a big heart. We knew Porto's wingers attacked a lot so our strategy was to take advantage of it, working the diagonals. Our first goal picked up the team's spirit and got them to believe in coming back. When we scored two more we weren't going to let the win get away.
Vladimir Weiss
We still control our own destiny - we don't have to look at the scoreboard and hope for other teams to win.
Bob Mcmahon
The only two teams we didn't see were Jefferson and Princeton.
Mike Ricci
You don't expect that out of your ninth hitter. For most teams, the ninth hitter goes 1-for-4, but today he had two hits and a sacrifice bunt that set up another run.
David Ruark
We're making teams play fast. Faster than they're capable of and today we capitalized on it.
Mark Hiemenz
It's nice to play our rivals to the north. Jane Shields is a good coach and her teams always come out and play hard.
Mike Brady
Is that good or bad? The league is so talented, I don't know what advantage it gives you. There are about four or five teams in this league that are good enough to win it.
Kelvin Sampson
I've been cut by so many teams, I don't even know who has cut me.
Rick Brunson
We played a complete game. This district is so tough and not much separates the teams.
Doug Banks
He's picking the teams he feels comfortable with, teams where he feels he could play in their system. But I'm sure they're interested.
Carl Poston
I think all the teams have raised the bar. It's a much better game today. If I was the same player who tried out in '98 today, I wouldn't make the team.
Angela Ruggiero
On previous teams, I'd rush with the puck. It's more confidence now, that has a lot to do with it. When you see coach and players have more confidence in you and throw you into different situations, that helps add to being a better player.
Jill Sales
We set a precedent that we can play a good team, we can play defense and we're one of the better teams in the league. I saw [Borders] was ahead of me in scoring, and I wanted to let him know I want to be the top scorer in this league.
Dale Parsons
The Wooden Award Selection Committee had a tough chore in narrowing the list to the final ballot due to the parity of today's elite players and teams. We feel that these 18 players are the most deserving for consideration, and we applaud each of them for their outstanding effort both on and off the court.
Mike Solum
Hitting the jumpers helps loosen things up. Teams are giving me that shot. It worked for me tonight. They didn't double Glen as much after I made those first two jump shots.
Tyrus Thomas
Marquette has had a lot of close matches with teams that we've had close matches with. So we knew it was going to be a close match. In addition, they are very strong at doubles. They've beaten two teams that we've lost to for the doubles point. So going in, we knew they were pretty strong at doubles.
Mickey Cook
A lot of teams would've gone in the tank. We weren't going to let one bad game ruin our season.
Curtis Martin
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David Crawford
Special teams were big for us tonight.
Jack Chapman
Our team wasn't playing well, and they're one of those type of teams that just run hard and they hit you. And we didn't handle it that well.
Chad Comroe
It was a very important victory for Porto. In the Champions League the smaller teams can beat the biggest. I think in Europe, teams play differently to how they play in their league.
Nuno Gomes
Right now, it doesn't matter if you came in second in your district or first. We have Palm Harbor, Venice and Plant in our region, and we're pretty good. Anyone of the four teams can win our region. Whoever plays the best game will win. It's not about being the best team, but the team who plays the best.
Bob Diez
If he's our second-best safety opposite Tony, then he'll be playing and we'll reduce his special teams role.
Scot Mccloughan
We have sent teams of microbiologists to the places where large-scale deaths of birds have taken place.
H.k. Pradhan
Of all the road trips we make in (the California Coast Athletic Association), this one probably is the toughest, not only because it's our longest trip (in mileage), but also because both teams are very competitive.
Bill Trumbo
Their (World Cup organizers) calculations were based on US$150 and obviously it's going to have an impact because they are the ones who are supposed to pick that cost for the teams.
Berthia Parle
I think momentum is something you need to revisit each weekend. As it stands now, all four teams are fighting for their hockey lives.
Jeff Kampersal
It was a good match-up between the two teams. We're comparable to Saranac on a talent level.
Keith Clark
Both teams are playing very well, both teams could easily be undefeated. We both have some of the best fans. The stadium is going to be packed, people are going to be going crazy. There's going to be a lot of energy. We're going to try to make the most of this opportunity.
Nate Salley
It was a great time here. We had great runs in the playoffs. We were underdogs all the time, but we had a lot of good teams. We stuck together all the way until the end.
Alexei Zhitnik
Mr. Dumitru was selected on an interim basis and as of today he is no longer the team's head coach.
Raymond Hack
I hope so. I just want to play good competition and teams that will make us better.
Noelle Kreykes
Our goal is 48 points and no more than 48. The defensive end is always where that starts, and if we can keep teams under 48 points I'm sure we'll win every game we play.
Corey Murtaugh
I like having a fourth team in the playoffs. This year with the three-team format, two good teams will miss the playoffs. If we get in the same scenario next year, only one will miss.
David Piehler
Six or seven teams are really playing at a high level when you look at our conference. …On a neutral court, you could get any results.
Brad Brownell
It's definitely the best couple of teams in Kentucky playing each other.
Nikki Davis
I feel very confident that we have people that can come in and fill in. I don't have any problem with the whole situation. I think we'll be as competitive as we can be and I look forward to a good series. Good teams make adjustments and we're going to find out this weekend if we're that kind of team that can make adjustments irrespective of some of the things that we have to do.
Joey Estrella
I think we have good players. At the end of the day that's usually what gets it done. We have been put into a system that tries to accentuate our strengths. I think, compared to the other teams in the league, we have gotten off to a head start just by the mere fact that we have good players here.
Kerry Zavagnin
Because Ball Bearings works in teams, we have to be really open. If you can't trust each other, you won't have a good story.
Jaki Clark
The girls got tired of people saying they were just a 5A team. But the thing about it is, South Broward has always played 6A teams. We always played the best. But now, we wanted to make a statement.
Sharlene Ferguson
Not at all. We can only be concerned with ourselves. We are just trying to win every game. We aren't thinking about anybody else's record but our own. All you can do when you have a chance to play these teams is to beat them.
Richard Hamilton
We have to improve our home form if we are to stay in contention so I can't stress enough the importance of these next two games. We will not be influenced by their positions either. Both opponents are capable, on their day, of beating teams in higher positions.
Dean Thomas
The first year was a challenge because only a few of us had ever seen a dance line before. We were very green. We took 17th place out of 17 teams the first year.
Cindy Clough
This win gives us a lot of confidence, it shows that we've matured. It shows to other teams that we aren't as bad as we were last year.
Chooch Sizemore
We have struggled with our offense. Today, our offense in the first half looked good. We have to build on what we did in the first half. Teams get easier from here on out. We have got a good chance of going 6-0 (the rest of the season).
Floyd Burnsed
He's doing very well for us. He's fitting in very well and doing what we want. We feel he's one of our defensive stoppers. We usually have him guard the other team's best wing player.
Greg Kampe
We wanted to keep them off balance and get the momentum early, ... We had plenty of chances to score in the first half, but we made a lot of mistakes, and you can't do that against good football teams.
Keith Wilkes
We've been going fine; we just prepare for any other teams the same way it just gives it some added pressure.
Kerri O'day
We got off to a fast start. We did a good job of breaking their press and got some easy buckets. We usually shoot about 42 percent, 44 percent from the field, so this is one of the better shooting teams that I've had. That's pretty good since we take a lot of outside shots.
Amy Scheil
You are going to win and lose games in special teams. The kicking game sets the tone for the entire game. And you lose and/or die by it.
Marc Jones
We have several capable scorers. It is not only important we know but other teams see that as well.
Roger Jury
I don't think we got started on the right foot. We didn't come in with the same intensity as we did against Trinity. The thing about college baseball is that every out matters; when you give teams extra outs, they take advantage.
Jim O'leary
It's the only way we can stay ahead of the other communities, when it comes to having competitive teams.
Dave Cassels
I wish we already had teams down there. It's frustrating knowing you can send help but are not able to.
Robert Griffin
They can go out winners. Only four teams get to win their last game of the year. These girls bounced back. And to win by 21 -- Richfield's a good team.
Tim Chapman
We kept missing some spark in January and it's been unfortunate. We need to execute better. We've lost some close ones that have put us in this position. We're one of them most talented teams in central Ohio and I expect that we'll be right back into second.
Bryan Larrison
The second half was different for both teams. They scored 21 points, but we only managed 10 going three for 18 from the field. The game was tight throughout the second half until they hit some key free throws and shots to seal it. We were disappointed to let this game get away, but we will come back strong from this.
Phil Carlson
It makes a big statement. We've always in the past years been at the bottom of the Big 12. Now, we're trying to make our way to the top ... with the rest of the South teams.
A'quonesia Franklin
Basically, they're all really good teams - you're talking about the 16 best teams in the country. There isn't anybody you can take lightly. Anybody can beat anybody.
Andy Greene
I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.
Josh Charles
It wasn't the plan to go 2-3. But there were a lot of quality teams there. When you get a look at a lot of different lineups and pitchers, you don't know what's going to happen.
Don English
We knew it was going to be a tough four games on the road because we played some of the top teams in our conference. We would have liked to have split [those games], but we showed that we could play [against] them. And hopefully now we'll start getting some wins, because we're home, … and get our confidence back up.
Kadie Riverin
We were a great rebounding team last year so teams are really making it a point to attack the boards on us, ... As guards, we're going to have to do a better job of boxing our man out and then getting back there and helping out. That's how we can get out running and get into our offense.
Gilbert Arenas
Last year there were a lot of good teams in West Tennessee. This is just a really good area for high school basketball.
Farris Lowery
Robert Morris is one of the most talented teams in this league. They are so strong one through five and are so explosive. They have so many players who can score. They are a pretty explosive team. (Coach) Mark (Schmidt) is so good at designing plays to get the right player the right shot at the right time.
Brian Nash
I feel that we are up there with all of the top four ranked teams.
Breana Allison
We get every team's best effort every night. Montello battled like I thought they would. This was the type of physical hard fought game I expected.
Bob Haffele
We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal with adversity and losses. This will be a good test for this team after we were beat up at Baylor on Thursday.
Bryan Shelton
These race teams are in the midst of preparing for a very important part of their seasons. But we would hope to see four or five of the cars here for the test.
Brett Bodine
(Shields and Williams) work really hard. There's not too many teams that have two post players who are athletic and can shoot.
John Diehl
They're very athletic and very offensive-minded; everybody on that team's looking for a shot. I think the difference will be great team defense. They're going to run into our team, which will limit how quickly they can get a shot. They're expecting 90 points, but more realistically, the game should be in the 60s.
Dave Springer
Just because they were undefeated didn't mean anything to us. We just came out and played our best game of the year. Renton is very good, but so are all the teams at state.
Michael Duty
As much disdain I had for that game, I told my staff that the only way it's ever going to be useful is if we get to the state tournament and play Christian Brothers Academy. They are two very similar teams.
Bob Cimmino
It's kind of hard to tell why. Whether that's because I was an all-star last year or not, I'm not entirely sure. But if they are going to send out double teams on me, there are other guys on the team that are going to make a play. So offences are damned if they do and damned if they don't.
David Lowry
I think our guys handled it pretty well overall playing here. It is such a great opportunity for all these high school teams to be able to come here and play.
Mark Grove
Beating a No. 1 seed isn't necessarily an upset, though. Some years, a lot of teams are about the same.
Larry Larson
We haven't decided. We're trying to get more scouting information on both teams before we make up our minds. We're leaning toward Cargill, but we won't decide until (today).
Larry Knight
I hope when the committee takes a look at teams that it's not just comparing two Mountain West Conference teams. I hope we're being compared to anyone else in the country.
Joe Legerski
So far we've only lost to one Division II opponent (Lake Superior State). We still have some tough matches coming up against teams ranked ahead of us in the region.
Tony Larson
We've got six football teams. That's probably enough.
Harvey Jewett
She's a lefty, and that takes other teams a while to figure out. She's a good shooter with great ability around the basket, and she knows how to grab a rebound. This year we're also going to have to count on her stepping out for us more.
Jason Beardall
We have no bats and no arms that will overpower teams, so we need to play smart baseball and not make any mistakes on defense.
Gary Miner
It was a good match between two very good teams. That's volleyball. The momentum swings back and forth. When you've got two good teams that hate to lose . . . you're gonna fight like that.
Cari Martin
You can't blame him, with all the stuff he's been through, especially going through all of the rehab in the offseason. He's making plays and it's good for me because maybe I won't see as many double-teams or whatnot.
Jevon Kearse
It's just fun to go out and compete. It doesn't matter what your record is or what the other team's record is. You're playing in an NFL game, and you are out there competing with great players.
Jamie Martin
I was never upset that we had lost four in a row because we played some good teams during that stretch. We played well against Bellaire, and The Mount (de Chantal), and Park, and we were getting better each game.
Dave Reasbeck
Unfortunately, the national conference only takes the top two teams and no one placed in the top five. Our closest winner was Dominique Rivers who finished 20th in Fundamental Word Processing.
Michael Nash
I think we got our main message across, that New York is a place that will welcome athletes, teams, fans from Africa like no other city can. We showed how New York will celebrate Africans and African athletes.
Dan Doctoroff
I believe the school games gave our selectors an opportunity to come up with the best teams possible.
Peter Kiruma
We have to work really hard not to let any other teams distract us. Our main goal is more solidarity and more consistency.
Shawn Mowry
It's been a good series. Both teams have played well, so I look for a good game on Saturday.
Brad Brownell
It's a very unique idea to put under one ticket price with two games of two of your local teams. I think it's an exceptional idea. If I was a hockey fan in this area, I wouldn't miss it.
Tim Coghlin
We can be really pleased with our second-half performance, and that we were able to make adjustments and shut them down on defense. At the same time, if we're going to beat top level teams in the playoffs, especially Cal, we're going to have to come out firing on all cylinders.
Kyle Mcbride
On paper is it one of the best (fields), but only time will tell. Some of these teams pad their records with teams they know they can beat. We won't be able to tell until they get on to the floor with us, but on paper (the field) looks good.
Kevin Hunt
I'm happy personally but we have to step it up a notch that's for sure. We need to knuckle down and bury those teams when we get up on them like that.
Lewis Ratcliff
Yes, I read it. And, absolutely. I mean, to be real honest with you, anything less is unacceptable at this point. We have expectations, and we're confident that we're one of the best teams out there on any given day. Really, to us, the only team that will beat us is us.
Larry Carter
We've seen each of the teams in our conference once this season. Now it's just a matter of playing more consistently the second time we face them.
Charles Howard
Because of the success we've had at Fresno State, I have been contacted by several NFL teams regarding their head coaching openings. Since becoming head coach at Fresno State, I have never interviewed for another job, but with so much interest at this time from NFL teams, I owe it to my family to look and listen.
Pat Hill
It helped out a lot. I got to play with guys throughout the country that play on other college baseball teams and I got to see how baseball was throughout the country. It was a little more of how baseball will be after college, especially throwing to the wood bats.
Bernard Robert
You have to apply to wrestle there. If accepted into the tournament, you expect to see the toughest wrestlers in the country. With teams like Iowa, Iowa State, Illinois and Central Michigan, the competition is stiff.
Derek Delporto
I thought our kids were well represented on all district teams. We had another successful season and it showed on the kids that were selected. Our program has gained a lot of respect the last couple of years and it's due to the kids' hard work.
Aaron Wollam
She's all right. She doesn't let it get to her. As long as we get the win and she did well on rebounding and assists, she's OK. It's just her presence on the court. It'll make teams key on her.
Tanika Nunez
Sometimes you have to find other ways to score when your shot isn't falling. I think it's becoming mental with us, winning on the road, but coach always tells us championship teams win on the road.
Brandon Cotton
I never have had to change the team's decision on who the captain is. The team's captain decision has always been someone who I would choose myself.
Denise Lyons
Schools have to start setting up for this now because they have to work on their schedules. A lot of teams have to work around their conference schedules. If we can go Region 7 against Region 8, it would say a lot about the teams in South Jersey.
Keith Hoover
We're playing some good teams very close. We've improved a lot, we just don't have that finishing touch yet.
Vince Strine
We couldn't really stop Clemens. Jessica was tough and you had two good teams playing and one had to lose and one had to win and we came out on the wrong end tonight.
Amy Leonard
They're both good skating teams who do a lot of the little things really well. It should be a great game. It's hard to say who has the edge but, in my mind, Harvard is the hottest team right now.
Roger Grillo
It's stunning, isn't it? Not stunning, maybe, but surprising, that that many teams went on the road and won. I don't think that's going to be the case as season progresses from here. We're projecting the future here, but I don't see that happening very often.
Jim Wooldridge
You want to push education and keep kids in class in the afternoons so they can make their test scores, and when you have lights it gives you that flexibility. That's the main thing. It assists us as well as the teams that are coming to play us.
Chris Miles
They have been tremendous this year for us. Their confidence level is extremely high, and as they continue, it will force teams to play the tempo that we want to play.
Craig Brehon
I feel confident we're going to make it into the [NCAA] tournament. I see they're talking about teams that have big wins against two teams.
Jamar Nutter
The fans in Rio Grande are great. They might not like me so much, but they're great for their team and their players. The same with our fans. They're great. They're just like the seventh man out there for both teams. Tuesday night, it's going to be a battle. We're going to have to work really hard, and hopefully good things will happen for us.
James Hiebert
If this team comes along at a normal rate and does the things that they're capable of doing, then we'll be a factor. There's a lot of good baseball teams this year. I'm real excited to see how it goes.
Brian Whitaker
NFL Films already has the title for one team's 2005 highlight video — 'Minnesota Vikings: Naked Bootleg.' .
Bud Withers
It goes back to when he was about 10 years old on the local Little League team in Ormond Beach (Fla.). He played on some competitive teams and sort of stood out as a youngster. He had more power than most of the kids and was a pretty good athlete. You could tell very early on he was a good athlete.
Tom Wiedenbauer
It doesn't seem to matter how far we're down. This team's going to battle. Today we fought back and got the lead and then lost it and still got it back again.
Jason Phillips
We played in that tournament two years ago. A lot of good Big Ten teams in that event. It will be a good early season test.
Jim Poling
Guys have got to realize we can't let these points slip away. You never want to be relying on other teams, especially down the stretch.
Scott Hannan
Even though we are basically young, I feel both teams have the potential to end the season with at least a .500 record. There's a lot of parity among the 12 teams in the conference. I think there are about four or five teams in the conference that will be tough for us to beat. But I feel we will be very competitive during the meets.
Vince Morris
It went surprisingly well for these teams being in a match together for the first time. Both teams fought hard - we still have more challenge matches to go, so I can't say this is going to be the lineup we're going to go with all season.
Mary Rea Pipa
We talked about the fact that there were going to be ups and downs by both teams. We just had to win the turnover battle.
Brian Gilbert
Both teams fought really hard in the second half. Quincy's just so comfortable with what they are doing on offense. We had a couple of 3-pointers and point blank shots that I would liked to have seen fall, but it didn't happen for us.
Ron Niekamp
Sure, it would be nice to have sectional crowns, but realistically we are honest about playing Homestead. Obviously, the other teams in our sectional face the same situation as we do, so we judge ourselves on how we do against other teams, not Homestead.
Doug Stoffel
Whenever these two teams play you have casualties. It's a war and we lost a key senior.
Mike Bradbury
I don't want to look back and be looking at three or four teams and what they're doing. We still have to keep our eyes on Boston.
Don Mattingly
Another solid opponent will be Northwest Cabarrus right up the road, ... We're going to be playing all the county teams, but they've done a real nice job and it's always a fun rivalry. Butler is in a conference that is night in and night out very strong. We definitely have our work cut out for us.
Scott Wolfe
We got off to a good start and we played some of the teams we expected to do well against. J.P. and Bridgewater are two very good teams, and we'll just have to bounce back from the losses.
Wesley Smith
In the first half you could tell that both teams were flustered. In the second half we finally played how we are capable of, as a team, and when we finally relaxed we were able to do the little things to win.
Marissa Young
We have done well against some teams that have given us problems in the past. The bigger tests are coming after spring break. We need to eliminate the lapses.
Al Keckeisen
It's special, ... There were a bunch of teams before us, though. There are 273 teams. Only one team can be the one that gets him the record, but all of the teams did it.
Tim Reynolds
If we wrestle well, we could beat them. But we'd have to have a really good day. We match up real well with the other two teams.
Joe Lehmann
We have proven we can go out and play well on the road. Oregon didn't play great, but we had something to do with that. It's not like the teams in our league are a lot better than Oregon. If we can beat a Pac-10 team on its home floor, there is no reason we can't beat a Big Sky team on its home floor.
Ken Bone
She's faster than everybody else. I don't think there are a lot of teams who have as good of forwards as we do. Everybody knows that and they defend for that, and we still score on them.
Marc Nesci
With Sean out, other teams can't key on him. When they key on him, it opens up space for whoever else is on the line with him. Alex Miller, obviously, is a heck of a player, but it's tough without the returning first-liner out there.
Len Kiernan
No doubt, these kids have a lot of incentive. We've never beaten them. But we haven't beaten a lot of teams.
Javier Ramirez
I can't remember a better stretch than right now, these last three games. Any time you can beat a team like Detroit, it boosts your confidence. It shows you can compete against the top teams and you deserve to be there.
Kyle Mclaren
Pitt was ranked [No. 11] nationally [by Scout.com]. They had five players out of the top 100. None of the other Big East teams had one.
Bob Lichtenfels
The team wrestled very well against top competition and I think we did regain some respect from everyone down there. There were only powerhouse teams ahead of us.
Bob Greenly
With 64 teams, I don't know that everybody believes they can make it all the way. But you have to. Any given night, you have one chance to play your best game. You slip up, and you're going home.
Chameka Scott
That's the thing a lot of people don't understand. To have the guys we have ... to have the depth that we have, not every team has that. We've got guys that could go to other teams and start.
Marquand Manuel
We will put together teams to look at the areas which we might want to invest in Punjab.
Ratan Tata
I think they understand every game is important and they aren't going to have those easy games where you go out and blow somebody out by 20. These girls have been around long enough that they understand that. As the defending state champions, teams are coming out to beat us and they take that as a challenge and look forward to it.
Tim Chapman
There was no give from either team. Both teams fought to the end. I'm just disappointed for the players that we lost.
Dave Capozzi
Our defensive line has played very well the last few weeks, and when they demand double teams, then it allows our linebackers to run free and make plays. We're getting to be very good at our front eight of forcing people to throw a little more than they've wanted to. We always talk about stopping the run, and when we do that, you can see how successful our defense is.
Rief Gilg
We are not a very big team, but we are very fast, probably one of the fastest teams around. We have to use that to our advantage, whenever possible. Before the game I was worried about Carver's size, but we were able to work around the size advantage and really use their size against them.
Tanya Sullivan
If you look at our corporate office, it's not necessarily stronger than what you might find at the larger carriers, but I honestly don't think that the regional marketing vice presidents at the big companies would be able to cut it on our local teams because our local management people have way more decision-making authority.
Michael Small
These teams are supposed to be better than us … and a lot of the teams come in and think they are just playing some community college. We kind of take that to heart and use it to our advantage.
Jon Barber
Right now, we're just in the middle of trying to find ourselves, that's where we are. We're not a bad team but we're not an elite team either. We're in the middle with a lot of other teams. We have to work hard to make ourselves a great team and, right now, we have a lot of hard work to do.
Brendan Haywood
If Arsenal win all their games then maybe we could have a problem but we don't focus on other teams, we will see what we do between now and the end of the season.
Martin Jol
The caliber of teams we're playing week in and week out now, we're going to have to be more focused, ready to play.
Travis Leffew
You look at the standings now with the top teams at the top of the table and you look at us in last place and I feel now there is not a big difference.
Brad Guzan
It's two of the premier mid-major teams going at it. A lot of eyes will be on this game.
Ben Jacobson
Good teams like to play other good teams. When I started to ask people about this (tournament) at the provincials last year, people were signing up then.
Blair Shier
You can play yourself into the first round through individual workouts with teams and with the pre-draft camp that the NBA puts on. My goal is to play myself into the first round and get a first round guarantee. If not, I'm coming back to school.
Morris Almond
I honestly don't think I'd want anybody else as manager. Heck, he was basically a coach when he was a player here. The fans love him. The other teams' coaches and players respect him. He was our focus once it was clear and understandable why Jim couldn't commit to coming back.
Marc Jerzak
I'm not leaving coaching. The grind of high school coaching is enormous. Coaching state championship teams is not all that it's cracked up to be sometimes. I never really got used to making decisions that not everybody was going to be happy with.
John Casadia
We're going to change our philosophy on defense. We were a little passive last year. We have some kids who can play man coverage, so we might be able to come after teams a little more. We don't want to be sitting ducks like we were last year.
Ted Jackson
I like the format this year because we won our Division. But I would be upset if I were a second-place team. Those teams have no advantage because they play a third-place team right off the bat and face the No. 1 team on the same day.
Joe Hartfield
Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.
Kelly Golob
The coaches have done a great job of researching other teams and finding out what we have to do to either clog up the neutral zone. We have the guys who are doing it.
Wayne Primeau
Then, when some of these other high-quality teams saw that Real and Manchester United were coming, they all wanted to be involved, too.
Gordon Jago
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