H. Hunt Conference Quotations

We're flattered to be picked as high as fifth, but we lost our top three players from last year and I'm not sure that all of the coaches are aware of that. I believe that our competitiveness will allow us to finish near the top half of the conference but every match for us will be a grind. Whether we're playing the team picked first or picked ninth - we'll have to show up and fight our hearts out in order to have a chance to win.

Our team believed that all year long (we were the best in conference). Even with the two regular season conference losses we truly felt that it was our tournament to win.

Matt is going to be a force to be reckoned with in the conference again this year. He had a great summer and is probably in the best shape of his life. I look for him to be a strong contender for another individual conference title.

We want to win the conference championship. Our focus is on this weekend; we are not thinking about the conference tournament.

We are very confident heading into conference. We have a goal to win conference and we feel we have a chance to do that.

I'm not terribly surprised about where we were picked. I think the voting spread shows that most coaches think that it will be a pretty tight race, with several teams having a shot at winning it all. We did get one first-place vote, so apparently one coach out there thinks we're dangerous. Part of the problem with a preseason poll in our conference is that due to the geographical spread of the schools, we don't get to see everyone, such as Oral Roberts or Centenary, prior to the conference season.

The entire season has prepared us for the conference tournament. This tournament is why we play, it's what our team goals are based upon.