Dee Brown Year Quotations

My freshman year we win the thing and get a four seed. So it didn't matter then. It matters now, I guess.

I feel that we want to accomplish a lot. I think we got the toughest bracket with a lot of good teams on our side. Last year expectations were high, but I think they're just as high this year.

Last year I said they were gonna make the Final Four. This year I know they're gonna make the Elite Eight, just because of the style that they play.

I said last year they were going to make the Final Four. This year, I know they're going to make it to the Elite Eight just by the way they play, the style of play they play. They're still a tough team. Hopefully, we'll see them again in the Big Ten tourney, but they're a good team.

We've got stars, you just don't know them yet. It takes a little time. Last year wasn't a grind, but you probably thought we played well when we beat someone by 20. Maybe we should have won by 40.

The word is really getting out (about Iowa Central cross country). Both teams should be much stronger this year and we have a lot more depth to work with.

The Year of the Century: 1876 was fun to research, and I did a great deal of traveling. I wanted to cover every event of any importance in that year. So I had to immerse myself in microfilm of a dozen newspapers in different cities, and half-blinded myself looking at it, hour after hour.

I never said anything bad about him. I tell a lot of people he's one of the best coaches out there just because of the type of person he is. He's a good coach. Everything he's got this year he deserves.

This is my fourth year in the tournament, so you already know what to expect, the intensity and how hard the team's going to play. It's a big advantage for us coming out, understanding how much energy we have to put out there to beat a team in the first round.