One big factor was that Williams had a miraculous game. He hit some open shots, but he also hit some other shots when we were right on him. He probably got confidence from making the open ones, then that enabled him to make the difficult ones. |
Ricky Woods is an exceptional player. He's certainly one of the best in our league. We would certainly like to find a way to stop Ricky, but we can't spend so much energy and effort on trying to stop him that we let other players get loose. |
Steve knows the tradition and has a genuine passion for Lamar basketball because he grew up with it. I believe he has a great future and will continue to take Lamar basketball to our expectation level of where the program should be on a yearly basis. |
Texas-Arlington is a veteran team. All of their main players got in a lot of minutes last year. |
The tragedy that happened at Lamar had a tremendous impact on us within the athletic department and at the university, as a whole. Like everything else, though, life must go on. I remember us coming together more at Lamar back then, and I'm sure it'll be the same at West Brook. |
There are several teams that could step up and win it all. Northwestern was picked to win it, and they (the Demons) have been pretty impressive, but some other teams have been impressive, too. |
They (the Demons) have a good club, but I thought we could've played them better. I thought that if we could get a couple of baskets at the end, they were due to take a choke. |
We feel like we're in good shape, because we are on the road. Our spirits are always up when we go on the road. For some reason this season, we've been feeling that we have a better shot at winning when we're at the other guys' house. |
We had a two-point lead with a minute left but then didn't make another play. We didn't make a defensive stop, and we didn't make a play on the offensive end. |
We pretty much went to the running game in the second half. All in all, there were quite a few bright spots, but we're still making blunders that we can't afford to make. We're very conscious of blunders, and when players make blunders, it costs them playing time. |
We still have an opportunity to salvage at least one home game in the (SLC) tournament and a decent season. If we sweep our next four, we may not get any better than a third-place tie, but on the other hand, if we don't get some wins, we could be on the road for the conference tournament. |