You can’t buy chemistry. You can’t draw it up or chart it.

The opportunity is there. It’s a matter of being able to close the gap and win some games. You’ve got to win the right games.

We’ve been so frustratingly close that you just wonder when you’re going to get a break. Maybe this is the year.

These aren’t hollow, computer-generated numbers. They’re there. They’re real, I think. This could be a defining year with the conference, if things play out. You need to get over the hump, and once you do,...

I don?t think it takes away from the luster of the conference. It?s great when you have a ranked team because those are the scores that are constantly reported in the national media and on...

These kids had to listen to people say they didn’t belong. That’s [garbage].

One year, that really isn’t a complete analysis. You’ve got to do it every year. I think for both the Valley and us some of the other guys that haven’t advanced … I think the...

We’re very thrilled that we got the recognition that I felt has been due for a long time. It’s always been the goal. The first thing we need to do is do it again and...

Years ago, I thought when we were able to hire a head coach from another Division I institution, it was a statement that we were moving up the pecking order. I guess the next step...

I think maybe they’ll accept mid-major teams who have done everything they can do, to the best of their ability. You’d like to think these teams will get an extra look, that they won’t just...

It’s a group of kids that came together … and showed people that there is more basketball than hangs out in the big, power conferences. The idea of having a team in the Final Four...

Delaware was selected among several institutions that were interested. There is tremendous interest in women’s basketball in Delaware and we know that the university will do an outstanding job of hosting our premier women’s championship.

It’s incredibly difficult to reach this level even for those programs that seem to have all the things going for them, so when you really have an underdog like a George Mason make it …...

Particularly for Georgia State, every time they?re playing an away game they?re getting on an airplane, so obviously we?re trying to minimize those trips.

I told him the only people whose opinion mattered were the 10 people on the selection committee.

In Division I, you can probably count on one hand the number of people who even come close to that kind of longevity. Of course, Jim became an athletic director when he was 8 years...