29 Quotes by Brad Brownell

I thought our team was ready. I would have never anticipated this. We worked hard the last two days and it didn't show. We lost it completely in the first half. East Carolina was better prepared and a better team today. We just didn't defend the ball as well as we needed and we over helped at times and gave open looks.

I sure hope CBS has something to do with selections in the future, because we make for great TV.

I thought my guys responded well. We did a good job the last eight minutes of closing the game out.

We had a little chip on our shoulder all weekend. We're the top seed, but everybody has been talking about other teams deserving at-large bids. Very few people were talking about us, so I felt we had to play our way in and we certainly did that.

We had a little chip on our shoulder all weekend. Very few people were talking about us, so we felt like we had to play our way in.

We've kind of been beneath the radar all year. People haven't talked about us that much.

We'll play five on none and the ball will be going out of bounds, and he'll dive to save it. That's just the way he is.

We are having a pretty good year. The year started off great. It was a nice tournament win for us. Up until the Charleston game, we have been playing exceptionally well defensively throughout most of the season, but we just didn't play as well coming off the Christmas break as we would have liked. Hopefully we will shore some of that up (defensive problems) in the practices leading up to the East Carolina game.

We didn't do anything in particular that was overly ingenious, we just went out there and guarded them.