Pat Flannery Great Quotations

I think we have to take care of the ball in order to get some quick shots against them. They are obviously great athletes, great players. They get the ball up and down very quickly. We are going to have to find a way to work with that so we can get back and give ourselves a chance to defend.

They have about 14 guys we can talk about. Washington runs the engines so quick. He does a great job getting them into their tempo. They're very impressive. It starts with him.

I thought we had to go out there early and make them respect us. I thought we did a great job of that.

Brown has been tremendous all year long, at the beginning, I don't know if he was wound up a little bit or what. He made some great plays down the stretch and he really came through at the end.

We're honored and tickled about playing a 9-8 game in the NCAA Tournament. It's quite historic for us as a program and we're just real happy. We've had a great year and we're looking forward to the tournament.

You knew they were going to hit some deep shots, and we just had to keep grinding and grinding. I thought Donald Brown on the boards in the second half really mixed it up. I thought we played with great energy in the second half.

It was a great game. The kids left it all out there. It was the kind of game where you thought you had it, and it got away.