A lot of lower-seeded teams have senior leadership, and they can be really tough in the pressure situations you get in the NCAA Tournament. At the end of the day, experience can carry you over the sheer athletic ability of younger players.

These aren't hollow, computer-generated numbers. They're there. They're real, I think. This could be a defining year with the conference, if things play out. You need to get over the hump, and once you do, you have a better chance to continue to build on it.

In Division I, you can probably count on one hand the number of people who even come close to that kind of longevity. Of course, Jim became an athletic director when he was 8 years old.

It's incredibly difficult to reach this level even for those programs that seem to have all the things going for them, so when you really have an underdog like a George Mason make it ... it's all the more unbelievable and special.

It's a group of kids that came together ... and showed people that there is more basketball than hangs out in the big, power conferences. The idea of having a team in the Final Four is kind of beyond dreaming.

I told him the only people whose opinion mattered were the 10 people on the selection committee.

Delaware was selected among several institutions that were interested. There is tremendous interest in women's basketball in Delaware and we know that the university will do an outstanding job of hosting our premier women's championship.

We've been so frustratingly close that you just wonder when you're going to get a break. Maybe this is the year.

The opportunity is there. It's a matter of being able to close the gap and win some games. You've got to win the right games.

You can't buy chemistry. You can't draw it up or chart it.