Jim Jarrett Quotations

One of the important considerations is for the women's tournament not to conflict with the NIT, and the NIT not to conflict with the women's tournament, and I think we can do that. The NCAA has been super-cooperative in allowing this to happen.

I am delighted that we will be continuing this great relationship with Blaine and Old Dominion University.

Four teams will be practicing that day. We'll be able to work out the situation to where practices will end before 6, the staff will work to get everything together, and we'll be able to play at 7 or 7:30. And everything will be cleared for the next day.

We began right away to assure the NCAA that we were going to get the community involved and the university was going to step up. It wasn't the time to sulk about your loss. It was the time to get in gear and make sure it was a positive thing.

We wanted our own building. We wanted a good comfortable atmosphere. We wanted it so the 6,500 in there over Christmas break wouldn't be lost.

This was a tough to take series. We were right there with the exception of that 10-0 game.

We gave a lot of guys work today because it's been a week since we've played. We wanted them to pitch a couple of innings with the conference coming this weekend. We're going to use multiple pitchers on Thursday again too.

The thing about it is we could have easily won three out of the four. Our defense just let us down the first three ball games. This is really the first time all year this has happened. I really think it was our guys tried to hard wanting to win. You can't play baseball like that. Our guys finally relaxed and played pretty good baseball.

Right now we're not playing consistently for 14 innings. We play well for seven, eight innings. In all honesty the second game is not a true reflection of how we played. They hit it and we didn't make any errors. We gave up 20 hits. You give up 20 hits you're going to get beat.

It's tremendous in terms of morale for a bunch of different groups. From a fan's standpoint, the idea of nice cushy seats and hospitality rooms you can go to before and after the games was a plus-plus.

I don't think anybody was paranoid, but there were certainly some concerns.

And defensively we did OK with that. We gave up one unearned run in that game. That wasn't a situation where the defense let us down.