I’ll probably be jittery watching all the other games play out. But I believe in the system.

It’s pretty obvious the national media needs to take a better look at what we have to offer.

We had to upgrade our RPI. To do that you have go on the road, you have to play good teams and you have to win.

They’re entitled to their opinion. I don’t think that’s the proper forum, to take on the chair and question his integrity. In that situation, I think it was wrong, … terrible.

If I miss any part of service on the committee, it?s that.

Nationally, I think you’re starting to see an emergence of programs that may not be at the tip of the tongue of the media but are starting to be viewed very differently.

The outcome of the championship game puts us in a position where I believe in my heart that we deserve and will get five. If there are a lot of at-large bids gobbled up by...

The attacks were inappropriate, they were skewering the chair and calling out the committee. It was way, way off the charts, below the belt. It was unnecessary.

I miss the selection weekend. Not knowing is agony.

There’s a buzz when he makes those calls. I know when he calls one of our coaches, I hear about it.

We’ve had discussions with other conferences about adding games that would be worthy of national exposure. It’s difficult to do. We’re trying to be as aggressive as we possibly can.

I think our cup overflows with everything good that’s happened.

I think there were two games in our tournament… that were elimination games.

I just thought it was too long and too harsh. You can win a lot of arguments with a selective cut of data and I think that’s what those guys did.

We definitely think it’s not in our teams’ best interest to go to Maryland for the money.

It’s really helped, I think, to raise the level of officiating. We now look at ourselves differently than we did 15 years ago. We demand more of ourselves.

There’s a lot of joy and elation for those four teams.

They’re closer than they’ve ever been. The difference between 5 and 13 is almost insignificant. You have a No. 13 in Bradley playing a No. 4 in Kansas. I don’t think it’s a mistake in...

We’re keeping coaches in place. Dana Altman sets the example. He understands you can accomplish just as much at Creighton as you can at Big State U. His program has been in postseason play for...

The pressure is five times greater than it’s ever been, and if we go 1-4 or something, everyone will think we’ve failed.

I could pinch myself. Dick Enberg and Clark Kellogg are going to be here.

I think the entire country was holding its collective breath when she got hurt. I’ve never experienced that type of total silence there. It scared the daylights out of all of us.

The magnitude of the weekend hasn’t sunk in. It’s going to take some time to absorb all this. I think it’s pretty clear that parity is here, much more parity than people realize or believe....

It’s a free-market system. We were competing with all the conferences, and Saturdays were the most problematic.

I think there’s still a feeling that we’re not for real among some of the talking heads. But I think we’ll truly be a conference to be reckoned with on Selection Sunday.

If you’re a national analyst and you’re going to criticize the national committee then you ought to be as knowledgeable as the committee.

It’s a historic moment for the league.

There’s a preponderance of evidence that we’re stronger than we’ve ever been. We have faith in the process.

We’ve really broken the ice on getting national attention. I don’t think they’ll forget about this year like they’ve done in the past with [Sweet 16 participant Missouri State] in 1999 and Southern Illinois in...

As Craig Littlepage apparently pointed out, that slate is wiped clean.

It’s very important we back up this season.

Money can’t buy you a Goliath. It can’t buy you an unbeatable team. You gotta have someone who can coach them, someone who can mold them into a unit. You can really equalize things with...

Take away the brand name (Missouri Valley Conference) and put the name of another league on our shirt, and there is no question in people’s mind that we should be a five-bid league this year.

So the dilemma the basketball committee has is this: If you don’t take five, who do you leave out?

We’re under siege and I don’t get it. We deserved every bid. We earned them. We deserved six bids and we should have had five, because I don’t understand how they can look at Missouri...

We’re very concerned when something like this happens. We don’t want to curtail unnecessarily anything viewed in cheerleading culture as routine. But we don’t want the risk of serious or catastrophic injuries.

We haven’t had a lot of marquee wins since Southern Illinois went to the Sweet 16 in 2002. But we have played well against teams that advanced deep into the tournament.