NCAA Tournament Quotes

My favorite memory is, as a freshman, going to Carolina and beating them. Going over there and winning on their court. I think that was the only time I did win on their court.

The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

Alabama's a football state and you really don't get too many basketball players out there.

The Final Four is what we play for. That's what we're trying to do. That's what's important.

In 1955-56, Saint Joseph's won the first Big Five championship, compiled a 23-6 overall record, and entered its first postseason competition ever - the National Invitation Tournament - finishing third. That season's success seemed to vault St. Joe's into the national collegiate basketball scene, and it has been there since.

There was no professional basketball for me in the United States when I was in grade school and middle school. I could look to the Olympics and college basketball, but that was only on TV for the Final Four.

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.

If you want the whole college basketball experience, you have to go to a game at Cameroon Indoor!

Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

Making it to the Final Four, you feel like you're watched on campus. You're in the classroom, professors are talking about it.

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'm saying when young men get to the NCAA Tournament, let's find a way to get their parents and their brothers and sisters a plane ticket and a hotel room. I don't think that's asking too much.

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.

March Madnesss...the only place where you hear 'Kansas is advancing.'

Strong college basketball is great for the NBA.

I coached Brandin Knight at Pitt, who was unbelievable, and also Carl Krauser.

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.

The only thing that matters in college basketball is going to the Final Four.

The really amazing part, to me, was when Florida made it into the Final Four, the Democrats didn't demand a recount.

I watched the documentary 'I Hate Christian Laettner,' and I really hate Christian Laettner. It made me understand why everybody hates Christian Laettner and Duke basketball. I mean, they're just a bunch of preppy white boys from Tobacco Road or whatever.