17 Quotes by Mike Rathgeber

We did considerably more than I thought we would. Especially since they had more than twice the number of swimmers that we had.

I am incredibly proud of this team. This is one of the most gratifying years I've had. Not one of the most successful, but one of the most gratifying.

Last year, it took us six meets to get that relay team under four minutes.

That clearly took us out of our game plan. We watched the Steamboat(-Battle Mountain) game (Saturday). We saw that those two had seven-eighths (sic) of their points and we decided that someone else was going to have to beat us, and to their credit, they did.

Lindsay's dives were shaky at points, but he hit enough of them to beat the Golden kids. That's what we told him to do tonight - don't worry about points, just beat the rest of the field.

We played them to shoot 27 percent by completely defending the paint. Once they started raining 3's, it put our game plan right in the garbage.

Tucker put us on his back and carried us tonight. Without him, we don't win this game.

Tonight we showed that we're developing and that we're coming together. We showed we're worthy of getting to the big dance.

Bob hit an NBA-range 3-pointer at the buzzer to put us up by 10. That was a very big shot for us.