It's been an absolutely fantastic magic carpet ride. In the movie 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' Butch and Sundance were being chased by these detectives. They keep trying to lose them. They can't. They keep asking themselves, 'Who are those guys' That basically represents the George Mason basketball team.
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I think what this team has done has opened some eyes. They showed you don't have to have 7-footers or the biggest, strongest players to have a great basketball team.Jim Larranaga
I couldn't believe it. Just before the national anthem was played, I heard our chant. I could see the president of our student body wearing that yellow hair. It's just super.
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Everybody expected us to win the national championship. I could observe the amount of pressure that we all felt trying to get to the Final Four.
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I know what this does for the university not only in the short run, but in the long run.
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The entire nation embraced this team. It became so much fun to win a game and have everybody feel great -- not just us -- but everybody around us. That enthusiasm, it defies words. ... It was a magic-carpet ride.
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I don't think you want to create the expectation, now that George Mason has done it they've broken the barrier, so to speak now everybody else should be expected to do that. That would be the wrong message.
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