16 Quotes by Ernie Nestor

Like every team, we want to go to the NCAA tournament. Our seeding for the conference tournament is very important, as is the way you're playing. Hopefully, we'll have those in our favor when it counts.

Basketball tournaments are great stuff. Kids careers end out here on jump shots.

Basketball is that kind of game. This is why college basketball is the best game going because of the unpredictability.

Our schedule is very challenging. The early portion of the schedule will help us to identify our strengths and weaknesses and better prepare for the most important part of our season the conference schedule. Obviously, we want to become as successful as possible. We also want to improve and develop as much as possible as we go along.

We were very fortunate to win the game tonight. We have spent a lot of time talking about adversity. We had four games go to the end and we've lost all four. ... We just didn't win, but we kept digging.

You always go into a game thinking, 'If we do these things, we'll be right there. We did those things. Our kids pulled it together.

Three out of our last four contests came down to the wire. That is why college basketball is the greatest sport in the world. You have to play every night.

We balanced our schedule out the best that we could. We are fortunate to have a lot of home games early. Our players are very excited about the upcoming season. Hopefully, we'll be taking our program to a good place.

While it's a significant achievement, for sure, for our team, the consequences really don't change for us. We have to have one of the top two best records overall in the league, and we're still shooting for that.