58 Quotes by Pat Flannery

We're going to do what we've done all season. We're taking them one game at a time.

When we get back, we'll have some beers.

We're honored and tickled about playing a 9-8 game in the NCAA Tournament. It's quite historic for us as a program and we're just real happy. We've had a great year and we're looking forward to the tournament.

We know we're a good basketball team. Even with rankings and all that sort of stuff, if you really knew our program you'd know these kids play for each other.

We did it the right way, we scheduled the right way.

Because of the financial situation, we used to get to the end of the steak dinner, and then you ask them to pay 42,000 dollars, and that was usually a deal-breaker. Now you can sit there and you know that, at the end, there's a little bit of a rainbow if it's a kid you want.

I did feel like the game was there for the taking from the beginning.

I almost threw them out. It was more like (the players saying), 'When's the game going to get here?

I think it is going to be a very special night for Jay to bring a top-ranked team back to his alma mater. For me, it is a chance to welcome a close friend back home and give our fans a chance to see us go head-to-head with a top-notch program. I know for our players it is a game they are really looking forward to.