Chris is our three-point shooter from the post position. I don't want to say he has the green light from there, but he's capable of shooting it. |
Coming off somewhat of a devastating loss, I was proud of how we bounced back and responded. |
Courtney did what he's capable of doing around the goal. |
Daniel has a way to will shots in and will us to victory. His courage and his will were certainly on display tonight. |
Daniel Horton has been a catalyst for us all season in so many ways. But certainly one of the differences for us (four-game winning streak) is that we've been able to play 10 players. |
For us right now, as I told our kids, we've moved on from what happened in the past. We're focused on what's in front of us. We put in the effort, and we are looking forward. |
For us to show the signs of life and energy and passion and defense, that's what we needed. I think you go through some stretches where the season can beat you down a little bit. I think it's naive to think this conference can't do that to you. |
For us, we know the rivalry, the proximity and that we hadn't won this game in a long time, so we're pleased. The focus for us was to try to stay in the hunt for the conference title. |
Getting to this point is such a significant accomplishment for any program, with the history and tradition of the NIT. It really is a big thrill - particularly for our seniors. It has been well documented how much they have done for our program, and it is very fitting that we have an opportunity to compete for a championship in their final game in their final year. |
Going there, obviously for them to probably have a chance to get off the losing slide there in the conference, the home opportunity ? the best opportunity if you're sitting in their seat, their side of the street. We're playing for a lot of things ourselves. I'm hopeful that we are able to be healthy, be ready and be prepared to go after it (tonight). |
Having those players back make us a much better team, a deeper team. |
He certainly played at a high level. |
He certainly played at a high level. Down the stretch you want to give everything you have, and he certainly has performed very well. |
He did struggle. We certainly needed all of our perimeter players to play well and I thought it hurt us when Dion (Harris) got the two fouls (early). ... That probably forced some other guys to step up their production on the perimeter and it wasn't there. I thought Ronnie was right in the middle of that. |
He gave us solid minutes. We didn't want to play him too much. |