The only thing that matters in college basketball is going…

“Get it together, I told myself.  This isn’t life or death. It’s just college basketball. Nobody was going to die from what I was…

— Mara Jacobs

If you watch college basketball growing up, you picture yourself in that moment, you picture yourself playing in the Final Four on a huge…

— Grayson Allen

There was no professional basketball for me in the United States when I was in grade school and middle school. I could look to…

— Sue Bird

For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You’ve achieved, you’ve got your stamp of approval. My…

— Mike Krzyzewski

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

— Li Na

Going to a final and winning is the best thing in life, and it makes rugby no longer a job. It makes it fun.

— James Haskell

If we were going to do a final album, it would be with Muggs.

— B-Real

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer…

— Rudy Rucker

If we can lose 12 games every year and go to the Final Four every year, I'll take it. I'd rather do that than…

— Jim Boeheim

The Final Four is what we play for. That's what we're trying to do. That's what's important.

— Jim Boeheim

If you go to the Final Four, you can lose 20 games and it doesn't matter.

— Jim Boeheim

The thing is 3,900 out of 4,000 college basketball players are very happy to have a scholarship. They're happy. They've got a $70,000 scholarship…

— Jim Boeheim

I love Charles Barkley, he's a good friend of mine and he's a funny guy. He knows nothing about college basketball. Less than nothing.

— Jim Boeheim

It's college basketball and there's a certain amount of uncertainty. As an assistant coach, you do the best job you can to win.

— Jim Boeheim

You've got to understand, every kid in college basketball, if you ask them where they want to play a game, in the NBA or…

— Jim Boeheim