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We practiced against pressure all week in practice. We were going against seven and eight guys in pr...
EVAN STOKAR We have six key guys and our six play well every night.
CLAUDE NOEL These guys (I played with), they knew they were crazy. With how the game was, you saw it (play out)....
GUILLERMO VILAS We practiced playing defense against their offense for a week. We prepared really hard to beat them,...
KRISTEN TIEN We weren't expecting to do that at all. It was unexpected, but we knew we had the kids to do it, and...
CHRIS LORDITCH We knew they were big, and we knew we had to play our best game to win this. I felt like every singl...
KYLE KALIAN We try to put our quicker guys on defense. A lot of times, those guys were skill position players.
CHARLES FLOWERS We felt like the pressure was on them coming over here. We were up for it, and we want to win the di...
JOE FILOTEO Defense is always the key to our success. I knew we were going to play well today. All week we had g...
JENN OLINGER![]()
People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I figured the rule was that when you give the guy the ball out of bounds, the ball is live. They hav...
MIKE D'ANTONI They play that a tough pressure defense. They play with that intensity for the whole game, and our g...
KALVIN BAKER It kind of just typifies our whole year, having to scratch and claw through it all. It's not always ...
BOB STOOPS We start off the season playing man-to-man. That?s our main defense. All through the tournament we p...
GERVAIS BARGER We came in the game with a big emphasis on defense. We knew we could come in and play with these guy...
ETHAN FREEMAN We practiced all week at Rust College and Jackson State, so we're used to the 94-foot court. This ki...
CLEVIN HANNAH All of the guys were ready to play and so focused. Going in, we felt all of the guys had the ability...
DAVE WOJCIECHOWSKI I was pleased with the job we did in game two. I felt like we really found our rhythm, and the guys ...
JOEL WALTON We knew coming in that he was one of their top three players. With him being out, it put a lot of pr...
TRAVIS PIETRYKOWSKI We improved immensely on offense, but we'd score six runs and lose seven to six. Some of it was on t...
JENNY PARSONS It was another great team effort with 10 guys scoring. We were able to hold Oran to 41 points, so we...
DAVID MIRLY We're a fearless team. We got a lot of poise ... I felt like we were ready for it, but we could have...
DOMINIC JAMES It was close but no cigar and we're not happy with that anymore. I thought I would wait until next s...
LANCE BAYLIS I feel like the key was our relentless pressure. We played 12 guys and kept rotating guys in to keep...
KURT RUTH We knew it was going to be tough. Our game plan was to play defense, but I'm happy. We were even on ...
DARREN ALEXANDER We were very excited with the senior-laden team we have. They've been pointing to this for quite a f...
DAN SCHNEIDER I like playing with those guys. We kind of have to find a balance -- we're very offensive minded wit...
ARTURO ALVAREZ We wanted to come out with a lot of intensity and pressure the ball early. We knew that they were no...
JOSHUA STALEY It was on from there, ... We had confidence coming in and we knew that we could play with this guys ...
ANDRE BROWN I heard some things this week, but you never know what the deal is. We practiced and prepared all we...
DEREK WRIGHT We got going in the second quarter with our defense, and they turned it over six times in the first ...
ADAM LORIA The confidence to beat the Yankees developed over a few years, ... Finally, we got to where we knew ...
ALAN EMBREE We were getting used to it. We practiced it all week and we had seen it before, so we pretty much kn...
CASSIE PROPER We hadn't played together since we were six years old. It was good to play with him again.
ADAM DAVIS I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew we wo...
GENO AURIEMMA I felt like our press was working fine, but I felt like we were not composed offensively. All we had...
BARBARA HELMS It wasn't like I said, 'Oh yeah, you guys want me? I'm coming,' ... I look back at it, the staff we ...
BOBBY JOHNSON We came up here and our guys wanted to win this game so bad and we played so hard. We prepared so ha...
DAVE WANNSTEDT![]()
I knew we were so close, it was just a matter of doing it. I thought we could do it last week, I tho...
BRETT FAVRE The way that we play, that's a good sign for us. We're going to have seven or eight guys get 15 or m...
BARRY GEBHART When we do our pre-game talk, we talk about certain people not liking pressure. But it seems like no...
LISA WILLIS I'm really excited. A lot of our older players were here. I felt like the old guys were back and we ...
TOM IZZO We're running down with speed and we have a lot of guys playing with great effort and enthusiasm. It...
GREG BROOKS We were the favorites today and the guys took care of business. We won't be the favorite at state, b...
JACK SCHWEERS We planned to have six teams with 13 players on a team.
BOB BURBANK Jared did a tremendous job for us today. We feel good about our first five or six (pitchers). It's t...
GREG MCVEY Our strategy was to obviously start with guys we felt we needed to start with. But we wanted to [sub...
GEORGE GELNOVATCH We had balanced scoring but we had six players with six or more rebounds each. We controlled the boa...
GRAYSON STANDIFORD We were hoping to get a couple of other guys through to Madison, but it just didn't happen. We knew ...
STEVE OLSON I thought the double play we turned was the key to the game. We said coming into this game that defe...
ERIC WEDEMEYER We came in thinking that we had to play like we were down by 10 points. And then we got a five or si...
BRIAN BEARD It's a vacillating situation. There just haven't been six, seven guys who have established themselve...
JOE MADDON We felt like it would be a good opportunity for the kids, not so much as a reward, but just for a ch...
BRAD HANKINS The biggest thing was not coming in here and getting swept. That would have put a damper on where we...
DOUG MIRABELLI We both play very similar, up and down with pressure defense. I knew it would be a barn-burner.
GREGG HOLIFIELD We were on top of them for the first five minutes, and I think our guys thought it was going to be l...
DOM WREN Our guys were relatively positive for all the bad things that happened. The one thing I take out of ...
MARK MATLAK We did a great job wearing the defense down. That was our goal. We felt like if we could run success...
JARED ZABRANSKY If guys don't step up and play well, that would make it tough on our defense. When you start playing...
SCOTT HANNAN When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't hav...
DAVE KLINGEL With only 12 players on a team and to have lost six of those players - that leaves some big shoes to...
MIKE BLAKE We knew it was going to be hostile, ... I had some fun with the fans during pre-game, but mostly I i...
HENRY BURRIS We got in their face, we were blocking shots, we got into the passing lanes. That's one thing we wer...
RICHARD RODGERS We got in their face, we were blocking shots, we got into the passing lanes. That's one thing we wer...
RICHARD RODGERS It was hard for us to maintain our focus. We didn't have the killer instinct today and we played lik...
CALVIN SAUNDERS Guys are moving up to Memphis. Guys are going to Houston. Guys are going to North Louisiana. We are ...
ED ORGERON We played well for six out of the seven innings. We were hitting the ball and (Oswego) made some rea...
BETH BEHRINGER With the two six-footers that Forman has, they're scoring almost all of the team's points in the pai...
DAVE MACNUTT I'm more concerned about our defense. We have problems. It's something we can improve on, for sure. ...
MATT COLLINS The only thing we're disappointed in is we left too many on. We scored early with three runs, and we...
DALE HARPENAU Andy could probably play this week, but with fit players on the sidelines, why would we risk it?
ERNIE MERRICK We played pretty good defense, we didn't make any errors. You don't make many errors and score nine ...
AL MCCULLOCK We still have two or three players who play well. If we have five or six players offensively who pla...
DEAN MCFADDEN![]()
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I have confidence in our team, but I knew it was going to be tough to get runs off of him. I knew we...
JUSTIN FLEENER![]()
I wish we could have more than six (guys).
PAULA ABDUL All season we've played this pressure defense, and we get a lot of fouls, but we are always have an ...
JENNA ERDLE We told our guys early on that we're going to play or we ain't going to play. You can't let things l...
CHARLIE COLES This game is over with, and we've got to move on. It really doesn't mean anything. There's no excuse...
JUSTIN SMITH Their half-court defense really prevented us from getting our offense going. Our steals were effecti...
ADRIAN WIGGINS Our heart and our fight changed. We were down that whole game. The defense decided we weren't going ...
CALVIN LOWRY![]()
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven m...
SHIA LABEOUF We've got 10 game dates left [in Arizona], so we have to start extending our players. With the other...
ALLARD BAIRD It is what it is. It's gonna be very difficult. I don't think we look at it like it's over. We look ...
FRANK HAITH I was extremely pleased today, especially with the defensive effort and the unselfishness of our pla...
BRIAN BEAURY We were committed to playing today. We knew we couldn't be hung up on last week's game. We knew San ...
BOBBY CARPENTER We shot a really good team score of 148. I thought all of our guys played well. Five out of our six ...
MARK SHRADER With all the turnovers, they still fought through. If we hadn't turned the ball over so much, we pro...
HUGH ROBERTS Obviously, all us young guys have been playing since we were six or seven years old.
LLEYTON HEWITT Our guys competed really hard for the most part. It's wasn't like we overwhelmed them with talent, t...
JEFF VAN GUNDY You want to make up for a lot for the players who lost their last game. Seeing some of those guys on...
GREG MCELROY With the Olympics, and the so many guys away, and the no equipment (Olympians' equipment being lost ...
MIKE BABCOCK It was a war. But I thought we played with a lot composure at the end. With about six minutes left, ...
JAY LASLEY We got together (as a defense) and met and let it be known that the way we played last week was unac...
ANTHONY MONTGOMERY![]()
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We know they're not professional guys and we tell our guys to try to remember that. We just have to ...
DON MONEY The defense played well enough to win. With that kind of offense, those guys are going to put up poi...
BEN TROUPE Our eighth and ninth guys in our rotation were starters today and they played really well. It was a ...
GREG OVERSTREET We might have five or six different guys running the ball.
MATT GRAY When Jake scored, it sure took a lot of the wind out of our sails, but we just sort of took a busine...
JOE GERMAINE
EVAN STOKAR We have six key guys and our six play well every night.
CLAUDE NOEL These guys (I played with), they knew they were crazy. With how the game was, you saw it (play out)....
GUILLERMO VILAS We practiced playing defense against their offense for a week. We prepared really hard to beat them,...
KRISTEN TIEN We weren't expecting to do that at all. It was unexpected, but we knew we had the kids to do it, and...
CHRIS LORDITCH We knew they were big, and we knew we had to play our best game to win this. I felt like every singl...
KYLE KALIAN We try to put our quicker guys on defense. A lot of times, those guys were skill position players.
CHARLES FLOWERS We felt like the pressure was on them coming over here. We were up for it, and we want to win the di...
JOE FILOTEO Defense is always the key to our success. I knew we were going to play well today. All week we had g...
JENN OLINGER
People see what they want to see SUSAN BETH PFEFFER I figured the rule was that when you give the guy the ball out of bounds, the ball is live. They hav...
MIKE D'ANTONI They play that a tough pressure defense. They play with that intensity for the whole game, and our g...
KALVIN BAKER It kind of just typifies our whole year, having to scratch and claw through it all. It's not always ...
BOB STOOPS We start off the season playing man-to-man. That?s our main defense. All through the tournament we p...
GERVAIS BARGER We came in the game with a big emphasis on defense. We knew we could come in and play with these guy...
ETHAN FREEMAN We practiced all week at Rust College and Jackson State, so we're used to the 94-foot court. This ki...
CLEVIN HANNAH All of the guys were ready to play and so focused. Going in, we felt all of the guys had the ability...
DAVE WOJCIECHOWSKI I was pleased with the job we did in game two. I felt like we really found our rhythm, and the guys ...
JOEL WALTON We knew coming in that he was one of their top three players. With him being out, it put a lot of pr...
TRAVIS PIETRYKOWSKI We improved immensely on offense, but we'd score six runs and lose seven to six. Some of it was on t...
JENNY PARSONS It was another great team effort with 10 guys scoring. We were able to hold Oran to 41 points, so we...
DAVID MIRLY We're a fearless team. We got a lot of poise ... I felt like we were ready for it, but we could have...
DOMINIC JAMES It was close but no cigar and we're not happy with that anymore. I thought I would wait until next s...
LANCE BAYLIS I feel like the key was our relentless pressure. We played 12 guys and kept rotating guys in to keep...
KURT RUTH We knew it was going to be tough. Our game plan was to play defense, but I'm happy. We were even on ...
DARREN ALEXANDER We were very excited with the senior-laden team we have. They've been pointing to this for quite a f...
DAN SCHNEIDER I like playing with those guys. We kind of have to find a balance -- we're very offensive minded wit...
ARTURO ALVAREZ We wanted to come out with a lot of intensity and pressure the ball early. We knew that they were no...
JOSHUA STALEY It was on from there, ... We had confidence coming in and we knew that we could play with this guys ...
ANDRE BROWN I heard some things this week, but you never know what the deal is. We practiced and prepared all we...
DEREK WRIGHT We got going in the second quarter with our defense, and they turned it over six times in the first ...
ADAM LORIA The confidence to beat the Yankees developed over a few years, ... Finally, we got to where we knew ...
ALAN EMBREE We were getting used to it. We practiced it all week and we had seen it before, so we pretty much kn...
CASSIE PROPER We hadn't played together since we were six years old. It was good to play with him again.
ADAM DAVIS I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew we wo...
GENO AURIEMMA I felt like our press was working fine, but I felt like we were not composed offensively. All we had...
BARBARA HELMS It wasn't like I said, 'Oh yeah, you guys want me? I'm coming,' ... I look back at it, the staff we ...
BOBBY JOHNSON We came up here and our guys wanted to win this game so bad and we played so hard. We prepared so ha...
DAVE WANNSTEDT
I knew we were so close, it was just a matter of doing it. I thought we could do it last week, I tho... BRETT FAVRE The way that we play, that's a good sign for us. We're going to have seven or eight guys get 15 or m...
BARRY GEBHART When we do our pre-game talk, we talk about certain people not liking pressure. But it seems like no...
LISA WILLIS I'm really excited. A lot of our older players were here. I felt like the old guys were back and we ...
TOM IZZO We're running down with speed and we have a lot of guys playing with great effort and enthusiasm. It...
GREG BROOKS We were the favorites today and the guys took care of business. We won't be the favorite at state, b...
JACK SCHWEERS We planned to have six teams with 13 players on a team.
BOB BURBANK Jared did a tremendous job for us today. We feel good about our first five or six (pitchers). It's t...
GREG MCVEY Our strategy was to obviously start with guys we felt we needed to start with. But we wanted to [sub...
GEORGE GELNOVATCH We had balanced scoring but we had six players with six or more rebounds each. We controlled the boa...
GRAYSON STANDIFORD We were hoping to get a couple of other guys through to Madison, but it just didn't happen. We knew ...
STEVE OLSON I thought the double play we turned was the key to the game. We said coming into this game that defe...
ERIC WEDEMEYER We came in thinking that we had to play like we were down by 10 points. And then we got a five or si...
BRIAN BEARD It's a vacillating situation. There just haven't been six, seven guys who have established themselve...
JOE MADDON We felt like it would be a good opportunity for the kids, not so much as a reward, but just for a ch...
BRAD HANKINS The biggest thing was not coming in here and getting swept. That would have put a damper on where we...
DOUG MIRABELLI We both play very similar, up and down with pressure defense. I knew it would be a barn-burner.
GREGG HOLIFIELD We were on top of them for the first five minutes, and I think our guys thought it was going to be l...
DOM WREN Our guys were relatively positive for all the bad things that happened. The one thing I take out of ...
MARK MATLAK We did a great job wearing the defense down. That was our goal. We felt like if we could run success...
JARED ZABRANSKY If guys don't step up and play well, that would make it tough on our defense. When you start playing...
SCOTT HANNAN When we were at the drawing for the tournament seeds last week, we were praying that we wouldn't hav...
DAVE KLINGEL With only 12 players on a team and to have lost six of those players - that leaves some big shoes to...
MIKE BLAKE We knew it was going to be hostile, ... I had some fun with the fans during pre-game, but mostly I i...
HENRY BURRIS We got in their face, we were blocking shots, we got into the passing lanes. That's one thing we wer...
RICHARD RODGERS We got in their face, we were blocking shots, we got into the passing lanes. That's one thing we wer...
RICHARD RODGERS It was hard for us to maintain our focus. We didn't have the killer instinct today and we played lik...
CALVIN SAUNDERS Guys are moving up to Memphis. Guys are going to Houston. Guys are going to North Louisiana. We are ...
ED ORGERON We played well for six out of the seven innings. We were hitting the ball and (Oswego) made some rea...
BETH BEHRINGER With the two six-footers that Forman has, they're scoring almost all of the team's points in the pai...
DAVE MACNUTT I'm more concerned about our defense. We have problems. It's something we can improve on, for sure. ...
MATT COLLINS The only thing we're disappointed in is we left too many on. We scored early with three runs, and we...
DALE HARPENAU Andy could probably play this week, but with fit players on the sidelines, why would we risk it?
ERNIE MERRICK We played pretty good defense, we didn't make any errors. You don't make many errors and score nine ...
AL MCCULLOCK We still have two or three players who play well. If we have five or six players offensively who pla...
DEAN MCFADDEN
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL I have confidence in our team, but I knew it was going to be tough to get runs off of him. I knew we...
JUSTIN FLEENER
I wish we could have more than six (guys). PAULA ABDUL All season we've played this pressure defense, and we get a lot of fouls, but we are always have an ...
JENNA ERDLE We told our guys early on that we're going to play or we ain't going to play. You can't let things l...
CHARLIE COLES This game is over with, and we've got to move on. It really doesn't mean anything. There's no excuse...
JUSTIN SMITH Their half-court defense really prevented us from getting our offense going. Our steals were effecti...
ADRIAN WIGGINS Our heart and our fight changed. We were down that whole game. The defense decided we weren't going ...
CALVIN LOWRY
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven m... SHIA LABEOUF We've got 10 game dates left [in Arizona], so we have to start extending our players. With the other...
ALLARD BAIRD It is what it is. It's gonna be very difficult. I don't think we look at it like it's over. We look ...
FRANK HAITH I was extremely pleased today, especially with the defensive effort and the unselfishness of our pla...
BRIAN BEAURY We were committed to playing today. We knew we couldn't be hung up on last week's game. We knew San ...
BOBBY CARPENTER We shot a really good team score of 148. I thought all of our guys played well. Five out of our six ...
MARK SHRADER With all the turnovers, they still fought through. If we hadn't turned the ball over so much, we pro...
HUGH ROBERTS Obviously, all us young guys have been playing since we were six or seven years old.
LLEYTON HEWITT Our guys competed really hard for the most part. It's wasn't like we overwhelmed them with talent, t...
JEFF VAN GUNDY You want to make up for a lot for the players who lost their last game. Seeing some of those guys on...
GREG MCELROY With the Olympics, and the so many guys away, and the no equipment (Olympians' equipment being lost ...
MIKE BABCOCK It was a war. But I thought we played with a lot composure at the end. With about six minutes left, ...
JAY LASLEY We got together (as a defense) and met and let it be known that the way we played last week was unac...
ANTHONY MONTGOMERY
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We know they're not professional guys and we tell our guys to try to remember that. We just have to ...
DON MONEY The defense played well enough to win. With that kind of offense, those guys are going to put up poi...
BEN TROUPE Our eighth and ninth guys in our rotation were starters today and they played really well. It was a ...
GREG OVERSTREET We might have five or six different guys running the ball.
MATT GRAY When Jake scored, it sure took a lot of the wind out of our sails, but we just sort of took a busine...
JOE GERMAINE
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