During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
The Final Four is what we play for. That's what we're trying to do. That's what's important.
March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it's the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.
The Allstate March Mayhem Challenge is a great, great bracket challenge.
If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do that than win 30 and not go to the Final Four.
I just love playoff basketball.
The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.
The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four.
During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph's won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments - including seven NCAA appearances - and reached the Final Four in 1961.
For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in ’88, ’89 and ’90.
If you go to the Final Four, you can lose 20 games and it doesn't matter.
You don't make it to the Final Four two years in a row by mistake.
I've won league championships, and I helped pull off a massive NCAA tournament upset - our 15-versus-2 win over Duke in 2012.
A Final Four would be pretty amazing.
Well, we went to the Final Four in '96. As a college kid, that's what you dream about.
It's a big deal to get to the NCAA Tournament.
I had a few brief, brief interactions with Coach K. Mainly us beating them in the NCAA Tournament back in 2012.
When I was in high school watching college games, I was like 'I can't wait to get to March Madness.'
I've always taken the approach that it's about the seed in the NCAA tournament.
Everyone dreams of playing March Madness and playing in those tournaments, big-time games.
