Dane Bradshaw Quotes (16 Quotes)

It was more than a statement game. It was a championship game for us. We wanted to control our destiny.

Coach is not afraid to crack a joke in the huddle with 30 seconds left. There's just something about it, it's hard to explain. But there's a feeling that even if we're down with 40 seconds to play, we're going to find a way to win.

I know I wouldn't trade him for anybody else in the league. You can't count all the things he does to make everybody else around him look better.

Even when we had a double-digit lead, it felt like we were a little sloppy. We weren't playing to the best of our ability and it came back to haunt us. But give Arkansas credit. It was a matter of Arkansas wanting it more.

You can definitely make the case that this was good for us, the way it turned out. Coach says the teams we play obviously will continue to get better, but the situation we were in won't get any tougher.

This will benefit us in the long run in the tournament. We've faced every type of adversity throughout the season. We've been down before and lost leads. Now, we're ready for tournament play.

We're well aware of that game. It was a CBS game, and it actually hurt us this year when Coach Pearl was trying to get us some air time.

I told everyone to treat this like your senior year because you don't know what next year will bring. To be in this situation and have this opportunity is a real blessing for us all.

Both games, they were right there with us. Just because you beat a team twice during the regular season doesn't mean they're the same team.

You want to be playing your best basketball at this time of the year.

You get excited when you see the No. 2 next to your name. But when you realize what a capable team Winthrop is, when we look deep into the scouting report, you realize that no game is going to be easy.

A couple of more minutes of solid basketball and we're talking about the Sweet 16.

We can make this a very special season, or we can almost be looked at as somewhat of a fallout a team with a great season, but weren't able to win the big games at the end.

It's amazing. People are starting to treat it like a football game. Girls are saying they have to buy some new clothes or a new shirt for the game, and they're talking about how early they have to get to the game. It's becoming an all-day event now.

I was able to get Chris on a curl. Major Wingate 15 points set him a pretty good screen and opened him up just enough.

I was never referring to the city of Memphis or the players. I should have used better terminology. I love the city and the program.