Bruce Pearl Quotes on Travel (3 Quotes)

At the National Association of Basketball Coaches Meeting a few years ago, they explained how pods and seeding worked. One thing was clear. If a team is a three seed, it could easily be a two or a four. A lot of it has to do with travel, match-ups and how long it's been since a team has been in the tournament.

You weren't recruited at that high major level, you don't travel the way (power conferences) travel, you're not on television as much.

That's the next stage in the development of our program is to have our fans travel. When we started that run, South Carolina's crowd got quiet. We had enough people in the building that you could hear them, and I thought it energized our kids.