Barry Hinson Quotes (22 Quotes)

I think our body of work is deserving. I believe in the selection committee and I believe they'll make the right choices. If we're in, it's the right thing. If we're not, it's the right thing and you won't hear me moaning and groaning.

No messages. We just played good basketball (against Stanford). Coaches that run their mouths, that all comes back to haunt them.

I've been in the league seven years, and I don't think I've ever seen any conference, period, that has had this kind of balance and competition.

We just couldn't make shots. It was like we fed the piranhas. We couldn't do that.

I'm thankful that both of these guys are going to graduate. It's been a blessing to have each of them Deke for two years and Kellen for four in our basketball program.

And I would expect them to play much better than they did the other night.

I'd like to say I thought their defense was good, but it's not what caused us to miss shots in the second half.

Just because they're the sixth seed, that doesn't mean anything. Not this year in our league. That would be like saying North Carolina's the fifth seed or the fourth seed in ACC some years and saying 'Isn't that ridiculous' No. It's just because the league's so good.

We always talk about equal selection and how it's fair to all the conferences and schools. Well, (the selection committee has) a chance to prove it.

We would even give up one of our guaranteed home games next season and go to Maryland. To have an ACC team in our building the following season, and the respect I have for Coach Williams, it would be an honor for our league.

They really sped the game up for us. Blake was so sped up a couple of times when he shot, I thought he'd had two Mountain Dews.

We felt good at halftime. We just chose a bad time to not make our shots and ... we fed the piranhas out there. We couldn't do that.

I don't think there's any question the league has the potential to be better. I anticipate it being better, but at the same time that also puts a lot of pressure to say the Valley is going to have six teams in the top (45) of the RPI and competing for an NCAA berth. That's a lot of pressure.

Right now, four teams, people should be saying it's a lock. The debate is whether it should be five teams.

That's our biggest challenge and I don't mind saying I think it's going to be really hard. But one thing I've always been impressed by is how young people are much more resilient than older ones.

Practicing for the unknown, it's hard to be as motivated. I understand that a little bit, but we should be as motivated as we've ever been because we know we're going to postseason play.

Defensively we turned it up a notch. We forced 21 turnovers against a good basketball team and that's pretty good.

They average (27) 3-point attempts a game and, to put that in perspective, that's 10 more than we average.

What we did this time, how we came back, says a lot for this team and for our crowd. Our fans were phenomenal.

We have a student body that is fired up about Bears basketball. It's a whole different level, the best our students have been since I've been here. This is a big game.

We know they're a heck of a basketball team that will be ready to play us.

Few people know it, but we were actually supposed to play in an exempt tournament this year in Pittsburgh. It fell apart at the last minute and we couldn't find another one on short notice.