“George Mason as an (at-large team and No. 11 seed) could have easily been left out of the tournament. Obviously, they are deserving. If you expand it, you decrease the possibility of leaving out more deserving teams.”
Oliver Purnell
“There are deserving teams. George Mason could easily have been left out of the tournament. Obviously, they're a deserving team. If you expand it, you decrease the possibility of leaving out more deserving teams.”
“There are deserving teams. George Mason easily could have been left out of the tournament.”
Willis Wilson
“Fifteen years ago, there would have been no way a team like George Mason could go to a Final Four. It just goes to show ... how many good players are out there.”
Billy Donovan
“He [Mason] got caught up in the excitement of having a chance to beat a No. 13 team, but the way college football is now, you can't celebrate. [If] we don't get that penalty, we have a three-yard shot at a two-point play [that] ties it up and throws it into overtime. I like our chances in overtime at home.”
Cal McCombs
“I don't feel like we were the bad guys. We knew George Mason was a good team. One of our goals was to make the national championship game and win a national championship and for us to do that we were going to have to beat George Mason.”
Lee Humphrey
“There were no North Carolina fans. Everybody was screaming and yelling, and when Mason won the whole building stood up and started cheering.”
Chris Nordan
