Skip Prosser
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"George Edward "Skip" Prosser" was an American college basketball coach who was head men's basketball coach at Wake Forest University at the time of his death. He was the only coach in NCAA history to take three separate schools to the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship/NCAA Tournament in his first year coaching the teams. In 21 years as a collegiate coach, he made 18 postseason appearances.

Previously, he coached Xavier University for seven seasons, where he achieved great success. He spent his first year of coaching at the collegiate level at Loyola University Maryland/Loyola College in Maryland, where he took the Greyhounds to the team's first modern-day NCAA Tournament appearance.

Prosser was the Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Coach of the Year/Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year in 2003.

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We've got four guys trying to move into whole new roles and that can be frustrating at times. We as coaches had the choice to play in this tournament, to play good teams and test our abilities early on. I think we're learning early what we need to work on later in the season.

All you have to do is look at the rebounding stats. That was the story of the game. You get one [shot] and they get two, it's really hard to win.

I think it is a big deal. It's not something we're pleased with. It's disconcerting, extremely so. There's no silver lining I can put on that one.

We knew he was a very good player, and obviously he showed that to us again. We didn't do a good job of finding Rice. When we did find him, we sort of looked at him while he handed us a 3. We went man-to-man in the second half because of his shooting ability.

Coach [John] Wooden used seven players at UCLA. Coach [Denny] Crum used to say, 'The more moving parts you have, the greater the chance you have for a breakdown.' I think there's a lot of veracity to that.

We didn't want Singletary to beat us.

Singletary's a big shot-maker and so is Reynolds. It's sort of, 'Pick your poison. As has been our won't lately, it ended up being poison.

I think all you have to do is look at the rebounding stat. If you get one and they get two shots, it's very hard to win.