Dane Bradshaw Game Quotations

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.

Coach Pearl was telling me about a game versus Wisconsin he had. He said that was one of the few leads he's lost in his coaching career. We're picking up on the coaches' mentality, and it's starting to become contagious around here.

This game had become an event. The students have been talking about this like it was a football game.

Even when we started to get a double-digit lead, we were still playing a little sloppy, and they were getting some easy buckets. We've got to step up and bring the energy every game if we want to be champions.

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

No team is 100 percent right now. That's the part of the game you have to battle through. It's about mental toughness.