Avent: "It's Been A Good Season"

NC State head coach Elliott Avent met with the media to discuss the upcoming Raleigh Regional.

"It's been a good season, the whole season has been good."

"You play Florida State four out of the last five games and they are a national seed."

"It's about how you play.  How you play is more important than where you play."

"You're used to how this ballpark plays. I think it's an edge.  It's not playing on your own golf course... but I think it's an edge."

"I hope it doesn't happen again... you just have to avoid them."

"We know Army is in the Patriot League and we played Navy from the Patriot League the last time we hosted.  It's a great league."

"Auburn has a good ballclub from the SEC. They were in line to host as well."

"It's going to be a good field but they are all good fields."

"We've been banged up a lot. We haven't talked about it a lot, but this team has been banged up all year."

"We got some rest... we talked Friday night after the Florida State loss."

"We're hosting. We're proud of that and we think we deserve it, but I think the committee has a tough job to do."

"Anytime you stay in your routine... I think that helps."

"You want to be able to relax, but you want to be hungry at the same line, and it's a fine line.'

"There are so many guys we can draw from."

"The list goes on and on... that's going to help and they will relax the young guys."

"It's more about how you play than they play."

"I don't think our bats cooled off as much as I think we've seen some outstanding pitching.  I think that will help us down the stretch."