Sprint Tournament Center Quotes from April 1; Sprint Tournament Center Invites Ben Braun of Cal, Chris Lowery of Southern Illinois and Mark Gottfried of Alabama to the Set

BEN BRAUN on playing tennis with Jim Larranaga: "We played eachother into submission. We've probably carried each other off thecourt. Jim is a competitor at heart. He's a tremendous competitor,whether it's off the court or on."

BEN BRAUN on Jim Larranaga's dancing: "Jim is one of the most funguys that you'd ever want to be around. He's a pretty good dancer.I've seen him before on the dance floor. He's pretty good so he musthave shown his team a few moves."

CHRIS LOWERY on recruiting George Mason's Jai Lewis: "When you'reat our level, you've got to get kids who have the size and girth to beable to compete with the higher level, and still you can get thembecause they're not tall enough. We obviously wanted him because he'sa force and he's a kid that can get baskets, and that's what it comesdown to at the shot clock, can the big guy get a basket."

CHRIS LOWERY on coaching alma mater, Southern Illinois only 10years after graduating: "The experience is almost like a dream cometrue because there's no way I expected to be where I am so soon. Iwent to Illinois for Coach Weber as an assistant, I thought I'd bethere ten years and get seasoned a little more, but I had anopportunity to come back, and when you get thrown in the fire youeither sink or swim, and fortunately we've been able to swim."

CHRIS LOWERY on the definition of a mid-major: "You're a mid-majorwhen somebody big will come and get your coach, and they say it's agood thing."

CHRIS LOWERY on the impact of the success of the Missouri ValleyConference: "It's scary for us because now every AD at a non-BCS teamthinks they can go to that elite level too. When you don't do that,then there are repercussions, and if there are repercussions you canget fired. That's the scary part of George Mason getting this far."

MARK GOTTFRIED on LSU's Darrell Mitchell: "Halfway through ourleague schedule, if we would have voted for the MVP of theSoutheastern Conference, we would have voted for Darrell Mitchell.That's how good he was playing."

MARK GOTTFRIED compared Florida's Joakim Noah to Tyus Edney: "Yougo back to 1995 and Tyus Edney, who didn't get to play in thechampionship game, was the best player in the tournament until thatgame. Joakim Noah to me is the same thing. He's the best player leftin the tournament, and I think Florida has a great chance to win thisnational championship."

BEN BRAUN on UCLA: "If you're going to play against them, you haveto be patient. You have to understand that game is going to godown to the wire. The shot clock is going to go down to the finalseconds and defensively they're going to get into you."

MATT DOHERTY on UCLA's victory over LSU: "I was surprised atUCLA's depth. I didn't realize they had that kind of quality depthcoming off the bench. I thought their defensive intensity was criticalthe whole game, key the whole game, and a big reason why was the benchof UCLA."

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