You're going to have to play the best to get out of there anyway. We'll be tested from the first tip-off. We got ourselves into this by being the fourth seed. Now we'll just have to see what we can do about it.
Quotes about tip-off (13 Quotes)
I've been a nervous wreck, to be honest, these last couple of days up here. But I knew once the tip-off came, I'd be fine.
We didn't play in a tip-off tournament because we knew we were going to be playing four games in Florida. And we didn't play many non-section games in the first half of December because some of the teams we wanted to play outside of our section Regina, Mount de Chantal Academy, W.Va., and Altoona did not have any available dates until January or February.
She's amazing. I wasn't even sure if she'd be able to play. We had to put a plug in there. and she played the whole game with it. It was bleeding badly a minute and a half before tip-off.
We had a good opportunity against Duke and we lost that one. Here's another opportunity for us. We've got to be ready from the tip-off.
At the tip-off tourney at the start of the year (a 58-53 Trinity win) we had Holt on Cox, only we had her play five feet away. This time we put her on top of her. We tried to make Cox work both ways (offense and defense) and sometimes that can have an affect.
I had a feeling - and I tried to guard against it after the Tulsa game and all the way up to tip-off - that we were kind of satisfied about where we were. I just think it's human nature. We won a game in a way that we hadn't in a while, and I think with young guys, we relaxed.
They are probably one of the most disciplined teams we will play this year. They beat somebody 22-20 this year. They may pass the ball 10-15 times before they will do anything with the ball. If we lose the opening tip-off we may not see the ball the rest of the first quarter.
It's a very exciting experience to take center court with the likes of Shaq right before tip-off. It was great to be a part of the festivities and it is a real honor for our sport.
The U.S. soldiers were on a hunt for Taliban on the basis of a tip-off when the shot was fired in the sky and the soldiers thought it was the enemy who fired it.
Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.
I talked to him right before tip-off and told him that he was our man. I told him that you're the guy that we want to lead Ole Miss basketball for 10 years and he said, 'I really appreciate that.' I told him, why don't we talk after the game and he said that would be great.
A lot of it is TV. We were disappointed our families and friends don't get to be at tip-off of an NCAA game. You play all these games all year, you earn the right to play in the NCAA, and you're playing before no people. Something's gotta be done about that.