Ricardo Patton Good Quotations

We will have had a really good season. We've done a good job.

I don't think you can give any good team a steady diet of one defense. I think you have to change defenses and maybe slow the game down a little bit, or get teams off-balance a little bit. I think that's why you're seeing it.

What Texas A&M beating Texas really means to me is it just confirms what I said all along - this league is not down. There are some awful good teams in this league.

He's had some setbacks, but he's done a good job of working his way back.

He did a nice job. The three he hit was huge, and his penetration and pitching to Copeland at the end was, too. . . . He's getting there, but I hate to give him a good grade after one good performance.

He has to make other teams respect his presence on the floor even when he's not scoring. He has to make the other people around him better. If he will value his worth in all aspects, if he makes his presence felt every night, we have a chance to be a good team.

It was a great win against a good basketball team and it really bodes well for our program. I thought we had tremendous focus and great effort on the part of each and every one of the guys.

We're excited to move forward and be one of the 105 teams that's still playing. There are some really good basketball teams in this tournament.

This was a great team effort. We beat a very good basketball team.

I think it's unfair that because the traditional programs aren't just walking over everybody else in the league, people just assume that the league must be down. I just think it's a very good league. That's what you strive for when you start a league ? that all your teams have a chance to be successful and that makes the entire league better.

I don't see any harm in it. . . . We have guys who miss free throws who are really good shooters.

Sometimes what happens is the media may throw that information out there and start believing that's the case. But I think anyone who has watched the Big 12 closely realizes it's as good a conference as there is.