College Coaches Sound off on Sprint Insider's Bracket.CHICAGO Chicago, city, United States Chicago (shĭkä`gō, shĭkô`gō), city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. -- On March 13 in the Sprint Insider's Bracket In programming, brackets (the [ and ] characters) are used to enclose numbers and subscripts. For example, in the C statement int menustart [4] = ; the [4] indicates the number of elements in the array, and the contents are enclosed in curly braces. , Sprint (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :S) asked some of the country's top college basketball College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. History
The following quotes were pulled from those interviews; please attribute (1) In relational database management, a field within a record. (2) In object technology, a single element of data. See instance attribute and static attribute. these quotes to the Sprint Insider's Bracket:
-- Gonzaga Coach Mark Few about the Minneapolis Region
(3) Florida vs. (14) South Alabama
"The interesting thing with this match up is John Pelphrey, the
head coach of South Alabama, was Billy Donovan's top assistant for
several years, so he will know exactly what works for Florida, but
more importantly, what doesn't work for Florida and try to exploit
that."
(4) Boston College vs. (13) Pacific
"Boston College is one of my favorite teams in this entire
(Minneapolis) bracket, and I'm glad they're not sitting in our
bracket because they are the epitome of toughness - they have the
junkyard dog mentality. They get after you on offense, they get
after you on defense, they get after you on the glass."
-- UCLA Coach Ben Howland about the Atlanta Regional
(3) Iowa vs. (14) Northwestern St.
"Northwestern St. is a team I was excited that we did not get in
this tournament. They are a 14 seed out of the Southland
Conference.........This is a very very good team and a team that
no one wants to play as a higher seed in this NCAA Tournament.
When you look at the upset factor, I'd say it's about a 5."
(4) LSU vs. (13) Iona
"LSU might be the most talented team in this entire field of 65."
-- Memphis Coach John Calipari about the Washington DC Regional
(1) Connecticut vs. (16) Albany
Referring to Connecticut, Coach Calipari says "Their starting
lineup, they may all be in the NBA someday."
(5) Washington vs. (12) Utah State
"The problem that Utah State has, is Washington has Brandon Roy -
he's one of the best players in the country, if not THE best
player in the country."
(6) Michigan State vs. (11) George Mason
Coach Calipari referring to the "Upset Factor" for George Mason
against Michigan State: "On a scale of zero to ten, and I love
George Mason, it's going to be a zero, because it's just hard to
play a tournament-style team that Michigan State is."
-- Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun about the Oakland Regional
(8) Arkansas vs. (9) Bucknell
"As far as Bucknell, they have every single component you can
possibly imagine. Experience beating Kansas in the NCAA Tournament
last year, 14-0 in the Patriot League this year. This Bucknell
team is for real, beat Syracuse at Syracuse. In the upset factor,
if Bucknell's a nine (seed) I'm giving it an eight (upset factor).
About the Sprint Insider's Bracket In the Sprint Insider's Bracket, college basketball's top coaches break down all first-round 32 tournament pairings for one-minute previews of each game. These exclusive vignettes, grouped by region, will help Sprint customers make better-informed tournament bracket predictions. These segments and more are available via Java-capable Sprint wireless phones, accessible by texting the word "HOOPS" to 7777, or by launching the wireless web and accessing "College Hoops" in the Sports category. About Sprint Nextel Sprint Nextel Corporation (NYSE: S) is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world. With 55 million subscribers, Sprint Nextel operates the third largest wireless telecommunications network in the United States (based on total wireless customers), behind Sprint Nextel offers a comprehensive range of wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business and government customers. Sprint Nextel is widely recognized for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including two robust wireless networks offering industry leading mobile data services; instant national and international walkie-talkie capabilities; and an award-winning Adj. 1. award-winning - having received awards; "this award-winning bridge spans a distance of five miles" and global Tier 1 Internet backbone (communications, networking) Internet backbone - High-speed networks that carry Internet traffic. These communications networks are provided by companies such as AT&T, GTE, IBM, MCI, Netcom, Sprint, UUNET and consist of high-speed links in the T1, T3, OC1 and OC3 ranges. . For more information, visit www.sprint.com/mr. Editor's Note Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. - Sprint will distribute a daily quote sheet from the news desk of the Sprint Tournament Center with host Bonnie Bernstein Bonnie Bernstein (born August 16, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American television sports reporter and anchor. Early life and career Bernstein, Jewish, grew up in Howell, New Jersey. , beginning with the first round of games in the college basketball tournament on March 16. Attribute quotes to Sprint Tournament Center. |
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