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That's a good way to look at it. We're just glad we're still in it. If we can gain something from pl...
WES MILLER We have NCAA tournament ability. It's disappointing, but we still get to keep playing. We're still g...
DANIELLE KAMM That was a really disappointing day, shocking day, to give up that sort of lead when we really neede...
CAMERON LING It's certainly disappointing because that was our main goal coming into this season, to go to the NC...
DENISE TAYLOR I wasn't sure we'd approach the NIT with the same vigor as we did the NCAA tournament, but pretty so...
ALEX LOUGHTON Every team's goal is to make the NCAA Tournament. I don't think we're dwelling on it. Yes, we want t...
ANTHONY DREJAJ We're trying to make the [NCAA] tournament. We don't feel it is out of reach. Anything can happen in...
MARKUS SAILES Hopefully we can repeat what last year's team did and win the Pac-10 tournament. But the goal of cha...
BRANDON ROY I don't ever want to leave anything to chance. We want to go as deep into this tournament as possibl...
LISA BLUDER We practiced these situations and to not execute in the game, it's frustrating. Fortunately, this is...
RENEE MONTGOMERY This was huge win for us. I feel like any time a team can get to .500 in a conference as good as the...
AGNUS BERENATO It was disappointing, but it is something that will only make us better and that is how we look at t...
HEATH GIBSON It feels a lot better. We needed something like this. We forgot how it feels to win. We came into th...
SASA CUIC Is that a bad omen? I have to ask: Can we add those two games to our win column? Hey, I'm 2-0 in the...
BOB MCKILLOP Our main objective was to win the Southern Conference. I don't remember feeling bad that we didn't k...
JOE GALLAGHER In a way, it was a disappointing year because we had a 21-win season last year. But to come in at th...
JAYME WILSON![]()
I have always thought that you start out the season trying to win the national championship. When th...
BOB KNIGHT I would say it was very disappointing. We clearly had the goal of winning, and we can win against [M...
KAI KELLER This is fun; it's March and we're still here playing. Everyone is tired and exhausted but we don't c...
PETRA KULHANKOVA We knew what we were getting into with Mount Olive. They are aggressive offensively. Good teams that...
DAVE SPRINGER I'm very much aware that it's not something that's well known. But there has to be a beginning for e...
ED RAYMOND The goal of this year is to win an NCAA Championship. We won the ACC [Championship] the past two yea...
DOUG STEWART It was a really big win and we needed a big confidence booster going into the next couple of matches...
KATIE POTTS It was an awesome game. It's no question we lost to a team that deserves to be in the NCAA Tournamen...
AMANDA BUTLER I'm not too concerned over the NCAA Tournament. We still have a few games left to play, and we'll wo...
JULIAN TERRELL I know a lot of people think we're not going to make it to the (NCAA) Tournament. After this win, ho...
JULIUS ASHBY This year we really want to go farther in the (NCAA) tournament, win regions and then hopefully plac...
ARLO ELKINS That shows why the NCAA tournament is the Pac-10 Tournament. We all beat up on each other.
KRISTINA THORSON When you get to the tournament, people talk about you. We've been talked about not only locally and ...
STEVE FISHER It gives us an edge going into the tournament in a sense that now we know we can win the conference ...
DUANE WITTER Our goal was to get to the tournament. We can still do that.
ED POLAND Losing this game, we basically know that we blew our chance for an at-large bid. We know that we hav...
MELANIE BOEGLIN The most important thing right now is not to get down on ourselves and act like our season is over. ...
ABBIE LETZ In the [NCAA] tournament every year, we've been the underdog and we came in and played [teams] tough...
BEN JACOBSON That?s our goal -- to make the tournament. We?re almost there. We?re so close, it is surreal. I felt...
GARFIELD YUILLE It was a tight match. It was a little disappointing we didn't win.
DOUG ELLIS It was definitely a wake-up. We are still in the Top 25, but [beating N.C. State] would have showed ...
CARL ELLIOTT When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M The NCAA championship is still what we're playing for. But we tend to stay focused on something a li...
DENNIS FELTON We have moments. That's why it's so disappointing. We know we can win games like that.
CANDICE DRAKEFORD Coming into the tournament, we thought we could win it. That's the way we feel about every game. It ...
FRED HOGAN It's a win. We came into this tournament determined to get two wins and we got them. This was an ugl...
JUSTIN SPARKS We have a chance to spin our season around. We can show we are the Wildcat team (and) we are ready f...
LUKASZ OBRZUT When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here to win ...
MAURICE AGER There were four teams who didn't even make this tournament. We wanted to make a difference. We knew ...
MALLORIE WINN We'll feel the effects in the immediate future, I think, far greater if we continue to make the NCAA...
JIM LARRANAGA We do that type of stuff here; we keep it pretty light. We do pools for the NCAA, the World Series a...
DAVE LARSON I thought that [Pittsburgh] was a game we gave away. We beat ourselves. Hopefully it's not one of th...
JOSE FERNANDEZ It feels bad that we lost this game, but that doesn't take away from the great season that we had. W...
KEAUNA VINSON In order to make the NCAA tournament, we have to beat Boston College. From there if we beat North Ca...
BRENNA MCGUIRE It was a great tournament for us. We wanted to win them all tonight. The kids are heartbroken but ov...
JEFF MATCZAK That's the reality. Sure, we can mathematically still win the league, but we're really looking at th...
DUSTIN VILLEPIGUE Obviously it's very disappointing to have lost that race but we can take a lot of positives out of i...
DEAN BARKER We do think about the NCAA Tournament and where we need to be. But right now, we're trying to take o...
ARMINTIE PRICE We feel we didn't accomplish anything yet. We made some noise, but now we want to go in there and re...
KOJO MENSAH We want to win the ACC and the NCAA [Tournaments]. If we don't do that then our season was a flop.
IAN HOLDER I'm very, very thankful. The NCAA Tournament to me, what's the lottery motto? You've got to be in it...
BILLY DONOVAN It obviously wasn't the result we were looking for, but our guys gave their best effort. I still fee...
KYLE BAILEY We won the mile relay and Travis Kamm ran a nice split. It was an exciting way to end the track meet...
MIKE FLAKUS We got the semifinal, but our goal is to win the tournament. We have to think just of the gold medal...
ANTTI LAAKSONEN I never played before in an NCAA Tournament, but that's the closest thing I can come to that. Crazy....
CHRIS HOPE I think we're just shoving it in people's faces. We're here to win. We're here to go to the (NCAA) t...
KAYLEE BROWN We tried to make them sweat it out a little bit. I'm a little disappointed we didn't win the tournam...
BILL DAMUDE We have played three straight NCAA Tournament teams in fairly hostile environments.
BO RYAN It's unreal. It's really incredible. I came here as a freshman to make the NCAA Tournament. That's t...
CHRIS FLEMING My mom didn't even pick us to win one game in her NCAA Tournament office pool.
CARTER JORDAN We certainly wanted to win the tournament because they award a nice trophy for it. But I think an ev...
DICKY HOWELL This was very disappointing, especially since we had planned to win this. We thought we would win it...
TRENT MILLER We were 2-8 in the SEC and won six straight. And [we] got to the NCAA Tournament.
JOHN BRADY Like every program, we go into the season with goals of making the NCAA tournament. That is our numb...
BRAD SAINDON It's definitely an accomplishment, but we can't settle on the win. We just look at it as a step towa...
CAPPIE PONDEXTER I think winning this game definitely puts us in the NCAA Tournament. We're definitely an NCAA Tourna...
MOHAMED ABUKAR It means so much to our program at Hartford, not just to get a win in the NCAA Tournament, but to ge...
JENNIFER RIZZOTTI We didn't want to be back in the NIT, and I think we proved to everybody that we should have been in...
LISA BLUDER The bottom line is that if you're still competing by the end of the season, and you can make it into...
BARRY WEINER I was very pleased with how the season went. The team had a very good year, even though we would hav...
AUDRA JEFFERS It was exciting. I wasn't expecting to win. It was a surprise. I've been trying hard to win that all...
JOE POWERS I was excited for Joey and excited for the fact that it would reaffirm what we've been talking about...
CHUCK KEARNEY The NCAA bought the NIT. So it is a little different. The NCAA will be seeding the tournament. But w...
BOB STULL The NCAA tournament, the championship.
FREDDY PETKUS Since we didn't have a tournament this year, that game was like our tournament. The girls were excit...
ALICIA TOWNSEND Most of the guys were watching the NCAA Tournament (with Connecticut losing to George Mason). It was...
PAU GASOL It has been the last four years that the winner of this tournament has gone on to win the state cham...
BART THOMPSON![]()
There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
HUBERT SELBY JR. It is nice to take something out of the season. We can't win promotion, though we can still aim for ...
BEN KEAST We want to win our last three games, big-time. We need to win those three. In the Big Ten Tournament...
ADRIENNE SQUIRE We're on a downhill slide, and it seems like something always happens. Yeah, we got the tie and a po...
GENO PARRISH And now, if we can go out and win a few games in this tournament, and if we can say, 'Boy, did you s...
STEVE FISHER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... I believe we can go out and win this tournament.
JARVIS JONES We showed signs in the beginning of the game, but then we panicked at times. We didnt execute things...
ALEX HERNANDEZ![]()
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We'll take the win, but we still don't think we played very well. We had 12 hits, but we made 4 erro...
JEFF PETROVIC The NCAA Tournament is your ultimate goal. You know you've got to take it one game at a time, and th...
JUSTIN HARE Our goal for the tournament is to win two games so we can make a trip to state. It has been our goal...
HANK HARGRAVES It's been our motto all year to make it to the NCAA Tournament. That's what we're working on every d...
AMANDA BROWN We are going to be here (NCAA Tournament) for a while. We plan on winning the first couple of games.
LATOYA MILLS We need to have a solid work ethic and come prepared to win hockey games. If we do that, I feel like...
JAY GRAHAM I am glad that we got this win, last year we didn't get this win in the tournament, so there was a l...
EMILY CUMMINGS
WES MILLER We have NCAA tournament ability. It's disappointing, but we still get to keep playing. We're still g...
DANIELLE KAMM That was a really disappointing day, shocking day, to give up that sort of lead when we really neede...
CAMERON LING It's certainly disappointing because that was our main goal coming into this season, to go to the NC...
DENISE TAYLOR I wasn't sure we'd approach the NIT with the same vigor as we did the NCAA tournament, but pretty so...
ALEX LOUGHTON Every team's goal is to make the NCAA Tournament. I don't think we're dwelling on it. Yes, we want t...
ANTHONY DREJAJ We're trying to make the [NCAA] tournament. We don't feel it is out of reach. Anything can happen in...
MARKUS SAILES Hopefully we can repeat what last year's team did and win the Pac-10 tournament. But the goal of cha...
BRANDON ROY I don't ever want to leave anything to chance. We want to go as deep into this tournament as possibl...
LISA BLUDER We practiced these situations and to not execute in the game, it's frustrating. Fortunately, this is...
RENEE MONTGOMERY This was huge win for us. I feel like any time a team can get to .500 in a conference as good as the...
AGNUS BERENATO It was disappointing, but it is something that will only make us better and that is how we look at t...
HEATH GIBSON It feels a lot better. We needed something like this. We forgot how it feels to win. We came into th...
SASA CUIC Is that a bad omen? I have to ask: Can we add those two games to our win column? Hey, I'm 2-0 in the...
BOB MCKILLOP Our main objective was to win the Southern Conference. I don't remember feeling bad that we didn't k...
JOE GALLAGHER In a way, it was a disappointing year because we had a 21-win season last year. But to come in at th...
JAYME WILSON
I have always thought that you start out the season trying to win the national championship. When th... BOB KNIGHT I would say it was very disappointing. We clearly had the goal of winning, and we can win against [M...
KAI KELLER This is fun; it's March and we're still here playing. Everyone is tired and exhausted but we don't c...
PETRA KULHANKOVA We knew what we were getting into with Mount Olive. They are aggressive offensively. Good teams that...
DAVE SPRINGER I'm very much aware that it's not something that's well known. But there has to be a beginning for e...
ED RAYMOND The goal of this year is to win an NCAA Championship. We won the ACC [Championship] the past two yea...
DOUG STEWART It was a really big win and we needed a big confidence booster going into the next couple of matches...
KATIE POTTS It was an awesome game. It's no question we lost to a team that deserves to be in the NCAA Tournamen...
AMANDA BUTLER I'm not too concerned over the NCAA Tournament. We still have a few games left to play, and we'll wo...
JULIAN TERRELL I know a lot of people think we're not going to make it to the (NCAA) Tournament. After this win, ho...
JULIUS ASHBY This year we really want to go farther in the (NCAA) tournament, win regions and then hopefully plac...
ARLO ELKINS That shows why the NCAA tournament is the Pac-10 Tournament. We all beat up on each other.
KRISTINA THORSON When you get to the tournament, people talk about you. We've been talked about not only locally and ...
STEVE FISHER It gives us an edge going into the tournament in a sense that now we know we can win the conference ...
DUANE WITTER Our goal was to get to the tournament. We can still do that.
ED POLAND Losing this game, we basically know that we blew our chance for an at-large bid. We know that we hav...
MELANIE BOEGLIN The most important thing right now is not to get down on ourselves and act like our season is over. ...
ABBIE LETZ In the [NCAA] tournament every year, we've been the underdog and we came in and played [teams] tough...
BEN JACOBSON That?s our goal -- to make the tournament. We?re almost there. We?re so close, it is surreal. I felt...
GARFIELD YUILLE It was a tight match. It was a little disappointing we didn't win.
DOUG ELLIS It was definitely a wake-up. We are still in the Top 25, but [beating N.C. State] would have showed ...
CARL ELLIOTT When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M The NCAA championship is still what we're playing for. But we tend to stay focused on something a li...
DENNIS FELTON We have moments. That's why it's so disappointing. We know we can win games like that.
CANDICE DRAKEFORD Coming into the tournament, we thought we could win it. That's the way we feel about every game. It ...
FRED HOGAN It's a win. We came into this tournament determined to get two wins and we got them. This was an ugl...
JUSTIN SPARKS We have a chance to spin our season around. We can show we are the Wildcat team (and) we are ready f...
LUKASZ OBRZUT When I got here, it was up to the older guys to make me understand how important it was here to win ...
MAURICE AGER There were four teams who didn't even make this tournament. We wanted to make a difference. We knew ...
MALLORIE WINN We'll feel the effects in the immediate future, I think, far greater if we continue to make the NCAA...
JIM LARRANAGA We do that type of stuff here; we keep it pretty light. We do pools for the NCAA, the World Series a...
DAVE LARSON I thought that [Pittsburgh] was a game we gave away. We beat ourselves. Hopefully it's not one of th...
JOSE FERNANDEZ It feels bad that we lost this game, but that doesn't take away from the great season that we had. W...
KEAUNA VINSON In order to make the NCAA tournament, we have to beat Boston College. From there if we beat North Ca...
BRENNA MCGUIRE It was a great tournament for us. We wanted to win them all tonight. The kids are heartbroken but ov...
JEFF MATCZAK That's the reality. Sure, we can mathematically still win the league, but we're really looking at th...
DUSTIN VILLEPIGUE Obviously it's very disappointing to have lost that race but we can take a lot of positives out of i...
DEAN BARKER We do think about the NCAA Tournament and where we need to be. But right now, we're trying to take o...
ARMINTIE PRICE We feel we didn't accomplish anything yet. We made some noise, but now we want to go in there and re...
KOJO MENSAH We want to win the ACC and the NCAA [Tournaments]. If we don't do that then our season was a flop.
IAN HOLDER I'm very, very thankful. The NCAA Tournament to me, what's the lottery motto? You've got to be in it...
BILLY DONOVAN It obviously wasn't the result we were looking for, but our guys gave their best effort. I still fee...
KYLE BAILEY We won the mile relay and Travis Kamm ran a nice split. It was an exciting way to end the track meet...
MIKE FLAKUS We got the semifinal, but our goal is to win the tournament. We have to think just of the gold medal...
ANTTI LAAKSONEN I never played before in an NCAA Tournament, but that's the closest thing I can come to that. Crazy....
CHRIS HOPE I think we're just shoving it in people's faces. We're here to win. We're here to go to the (NCAA) t...
KAYLEE BROWN We tried to make them sweat it out a little bit. I'm a little disappointed we didn't win the tournam...
BILL DAMUDE We have played three straight NCAA Tournament teams in fairly hostile environments.
BO RYAN It's unreal. It's really incredible. I came here as a freshman to make the NCAA Tournament. That's t...
CHRIS FLEMING My mom didn't even pick us to win one game in her NCAA Tournament office pool.
CARTER JORDAN We certainly wanted to win the tournament because they award a nice trophy for it. But I think an ev...
DICKY HOWELL This was very disappointing, especially since we had planned to win this. We thought we would win it...
TRENT MILLER We were 2-8 in the SEC and won six straight. And [we] got to the NCAA Tournament.
JOHN BRADY Like every program, we go into the season with goals of making the NCAA tournament. That is our numb...
BRAD SAINDON It's definitely an accomplishment, but we can't settle on the win. We just look at it as a step towa...
CAPPIE PONDEXTER I think winning this game definitely puts us in the NCAA Tournament. We're definitely an NCAA Tourna...
MOHAMED ABUKAR It means so much to our program at Hartford, not just to get a win in the NCAA Tournament, but to ge...
JENNIFER RIZZOTTI We didn't want to be back in the NIT, and I think we proved to everybody that we should have been in...
LISA BLUDER The bottom line is that if you're still competing by the end of the season, and you can make it into...
BARRY WEINER I was very pleased with how the season went. The team had a very good year, even though we would hav...
AUDRA JEFFERS It was exciting. I wasn't expecting to win. It was a surprise. I've been trying hard to win that all...
JOE POWERS I was excited for Joey and excited for the fact that it would reaffirm what we've been talking about...
CHUCK KEARNEY The NCAA bought the NIT. So it is a little different. The NCAA will be seeding the tournament. But w...
BOB STULL The NCAA tournament, the championship.
FREDDY PETKUS Since we didn't have a tournament this year, that game was like our tournament. The girls were excit...
ALICIA TOWNSEND Most of the guys were watching the NCAA Tournament (with Connecticut losing to George Mason). It was...
PAU GASOL It has been the last four years that the winner of this tournament has gone on to win the state cham...
BART THOMPSON
There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck. HUBERT SELBY JR. It is nice to take something out of the season. We can't win promotion, though we can still aim for ...
BEN KEAST We want to win our last three games, big-time. We need to win those three. In the Big Ten Tournament...
ADRIENNE SQUIRE We're on a downhill slide, and it seems like something always happens. Yeah, we got the tie and a po...
GENO PARRISH And now, if we can go out and win a few games in this tournament, and if we can say, 'Boy, did you s...
STEVE FISHER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... I believe we can go out and win this tournament.
JARVIS JONES We showed signs in the beginning of the game, but then we panicked at times. We didnt execute things...
ALEX HERNANDEZ
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We'll take the win, but we still don't think we played very well. We had 12 hits, but we made 4 erro...
JEFF PETROVIC The NCAA Tournament is your ultimate goal. You know you've got to take it one game at a time, and th...
JUSTIN HARE Our goal for the tournament is to win two games so we can make a trip to state. It has been our goal...
HANK HARGRAVES It's been our motto all year to make it to the NCAA Tournament. That's what we're working on every d...
AMANDA BROWN We are going to be here (NCAA Tournament) for a while. We plan on winning the first couple of games.
LATOYA MILLS We need to have a solid work ethic and come prepared to win hockey games. If we do that, I feel like...
JAY GRAHAM I am glad that we got this win, last year we didn't get this win in the tournament, so there was a l...
EMILY CUMMINGS
Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow you... 
I wish I were braver, although I try. 