There wasn't a lot of emotion in the building. The guys just had to fight through it. |
There's tons of guys out there that don't look forward to it the way this tournament should be looked forward to. |
These are good numbers for the national economy. Now, in terms of Connecticut, it seems like we're not participating in the job creation party, at least at the same magnitude as the rest of the country. But companies are basically doing well and corporate profits are still strong, so we're getting to the point in Connecticut where companies will have to hire some people. |
They are a good team right now. This Bucyrus team is pretty much up and down right now. |
They're a good basketball team. We're two pretty evenly-matched teams. |
Tonight we played the team that won the NCC. That is a good team. But we battled them down two starters. I am very proud of my kids. |
We came out in the first half and we knew that Buckeye could shoot the perimeter shot. |
We defended for 16 minutes as well as we can defend. We didn't do a whole lot of trapping. It was just solid, half-court, man-to-man defense. The kids did a great job. |
We didn't want (Iceman) to catch the ball in his comfort zone. He's a one-man wrecking crew right now. |
We had too many turnovers especially in the second half. You can't expect to beat that team with 19 turnovers. |
We played a good 16 minutes and we played a bad 16 minutes. You can't play like that against a team like Buckeye. They're one of the hottest teams in the league. |
We told the kids we weren't going to play any zone, no gimmicks. We wanted to chase Scott (Kin) and Justin (Frey) all over the floor. We did a nice job. |
When we're not standing at the three-point line, we're a pretty good team. The key for us was shot selection. Our shot selection was very good tonight. |
You just got to work intelligently. Take that extra step to not injure yourself while working on your equipment. |