Steve Alford Last Quotations

We appreciate the hard work and efforts that Rich and Greg have extended on behalf of this program over the past seven years. With 46 wins in the last two seasons and six straight winning seasons, they have contributed to a lot of the successes we have enjoyed. In my long?term commitment toward the future, I wanted to move Brian to director of basketball operations and felt these moves were necessary for the continued progress of the program.

For whatever reason, on the road our defense has not been nearly as good as it's been at home. We're going to have to get back to that because we're really going to have to guard these last two games to give ourselves a chance.

Hopefully, they can finish here during the last five weeks. Because it's been a special year, thus far.

We met at 5:30 (Sunday afternoon). And at 5:40 we no longer talked about the last game.

We're down to the last two weeks. Three-and-0, you probably win it outright. Two-and-one, you get a chance to get a share of it. That's why it's going to be very exciting.

With 46 wins in the last two seasons and six straight winning seasons, they have contributed to a lot of the successes we have enjoyed. In my long term commitment towards the future, I ... felt these moves were necessary for the continued progress of the program.

It was the same scenario. The last 5 minutes, I just thought they were the tougher basketball team.

Northwestern hasn't helped us in a long, long time ... so I guess it'd be nice if they would help. You have a lot of interesting games. Every team is playing for something here in this last week.

They've been on the top of our league for the last five years. They've been the team to beat for a long time and not a lot of people have been able to do it.

It was a great journey this year. It's hard for the seniors that their last game had to be like this.

I'm glad we got a day for the players to enjoy what they did last weekend. We made sure they enjoyed it. But this (the NCAA tournament) is what you play for.

In the last five minutes, they were the tougher basketball team. They got the stops they needed, and we did not.

He's looked like that the last two days in practice.

The legacy (the seniors) leave will last long after this year is over. But we still have a lot of work to do.