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DARREN ALEXANDER I don't feel like we were the bad guys. We knew George Mason was a good team. One of our goals was t...
LEE HUMPHREY We still have to beat North Iredell in our last NPC game, but in the second half it felt like we wer...
BOB BLAKE They're a great offensive team. We just knew that every possession we were going to have to play har...
ALAN FOX I thought we set an early tone with our play on defense. Highland has some inexperience up front and...
AL MARTIN We had our mind made up that we were going to play some zone, but the way the game played out, we th...
JOE LAYNE We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making th...
BREANA ALLISON We were wide open and we didn't need to rush. I don't know why we were rushing except that we were t...
TERRI MITCHELL We were excited to go to the tournament, play well and continue to improve with each game. We're hap...
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CURT OTT We are going to approach it like any other game, if we play our type of basketball I don't think any...
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CHARLIE RIGOGLIOSO We didn't know what they were going to play on defense, and we had trouble in the first half. We mad...
LARRY DOLAN I told our girls I was happy with the way they fought back and took it to five games, but I thought ...
KRISTA MIKESCH We were real happy with our play early. The kids were really coming off the ball, playing excited on...
JAMES BLANKENSHIP That was a fun game for us. We knew we were going to need our top game to beat Ottawa with all the s...
ALES KOTALIK It was a great game. Our defense was excellent. We were able to move the ball well in the first half...
LARRY MILLIGAN We were going to have to play that kind of game, which we did.
LARRY IZZO We played a few different defenses in the first half and they played man. We have the top-ranked def...
LONNIE BRANTLEY We didn't play really good defense. That's why we were down 4-2. But the guys realized that after th...
DAVE BASEGGIO I know that if we're going to beat McNeese State, we've got to be better than we were against Alabam...
JEFF BOWER It's embarrassing. We know we were brutal. We sucked. The fans told us and they were right about tha...
DONALD BRASHEAR We weren't really looking at our height. We were just going to play team defense. We weren't worried...
ASHANTI COOK As a defense, we didn't play very well in (the AFC Championship game) and that's going to be in the ...
DICK LEBEAU I had a sneaky suspicion that we were going to play better the second half, ... I saw that even prio...
LOU PINIELLA We were awake. But we were just ready to play the game, so I don't know if we were listening to what...
DONNY BUNCE I have to congratulate Lake Central. They played better than us in every aspect of the game. ... We ...
AMY GOVERT Were not happy with our effort tonight but you've got to get your head back up and win a game tomorr...
MIKE CAMMALLERI You know, I thought we might end up third. We knew Columbus and New London were the two teams we'd h...
DON EGGENBURG Ozzie wanted to try to put his stamp on the team with some speed and more defense, and the overall a...
PAUL KONERKO We were holding the ball and giving the defense a break. We were giving the defense a chance to beat...
DAVE NICHOLS We noticed that when they put up a shot, only one of their guys was going to the board and the rest ...
BRETT MCFARLAND We beat a team that we were supposed to beat and we beat them handily. It should not have been a clo...
JACKIE TURPIN Yeah, I'm happy to see that happen, but I wasn't happy that we were down 10. We have this thing wher...
GERALD COX It was a hard-fought game. A real battle the entire time. There were so many lead changes that no le...
TOM ROBERGE I think that we played pretty well, and the big thing was that in the last 20 minutes of the game, w...
DAVE DONAHUE I think we were focused coming in. They beat us pretty good at our place and we wanted to bounce bac...
SHAWN ALMOND I thought we were going to beat her up.
DOROTHY HALLAS Our team [on Sunday], we were hurting. The coaches and the players were disappointed, frustrated, th...
DIRK KOETTER We were playing good defense and we were running our offense okay but we had to pick it up. We kept ...
CATHERINE BOVE We needed a little time to warm up, ... After the first game, we warmed up. We were a lot more inten...
ERICA GARCIA I think it was definitely our defense because some nights we were horrible shooting. Our defense is ...
HOLLY PADDOCK If we were going to fold our tents, that was a time to do it, but we didn't. We stepped up when our ...
ERNIE HUGHES There were a couple of first game jitters for us with guys jumping off side and stuff like that. Ove...
BILL HUDSPITH There was a lot of concern about who was going to pitch this year, what are we going to do, sort of ...
MICHAEL LOTIEF We were having good shots, but we weren't getting many clean rebounds that usually lead to points in...
JACK SCHRADER We just weren't ourselves today. Even though our shots were off, we didn't play the defense we neede...
KOJO MENSAH We played well on defense. We were able to hold them in check pretty well in the half court. But ove...
DON MORELAND His message was that every game is tough and, yeah, we finished undefeated and, yeah, we won the nat...
MATT LEINART The confidence to beat the Yankees developed over a few years, ... Finally, we got to where we knew ...
ALAN EMBREE We like to play fast, and I felt like we were playing slow the whole game because we were having a h...
ED ORTEGO Our defense was the difference for us in this game. We knew going in that they were not a good three...
JOSH MCKAY We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We ...
BRIAN FITZGERALD We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We ...
BRIAN FITZGERALD We've got to boost our enthusiasm up and play hard and come out and just have fun and play like we'v...
CHAD HENNE I really thought that we were going to be one of the teams to beat in state. Unfortunately, because ...
COACH RUSTY TAYLOR Some of the kids got beat up. But overall I thought the kids were outstanding and wrestled against s...
GEORGE FOTENOS It's hard to beat them at whatever level we meet them at. We were hoping that since we got past area...
ANTHONY JAMISON It's going to be harder than it was last year. We were able to sneak up on people last year, with ou...
CHRIS DUHON I think we did a great job of not giving up the big play. There were some missed tackles, but overal...
SKIP HOLTZ Our goal is to play better than their defense, ... That's most important. And that's every game. We ...
ANTWAN PEEK We knew that they were a team that played a tough physical style. We just wanted to play our style o...
COLLEEN CHRISTIAN We're still making adjustments in personnel to get to where we want to be. But we need to play bette...
GARY GIANCOLA We felt that we were going to have a strong year overall both covering and returning kicks and I sti...
LARRY IZZO We knew coming in that UGF was going to make our guards beat them, and we were ready.
BRIAN ORR We set the tone from the start of the game that we were going to play hard and make it tough on them...
CLIFFORD ROBINSON We're a much better team than we were when we played them in December. But they're also a great team...
BRAD CHASTEEN Both teams were patient on offense, but we definitely stressed at halftime that we had to pick up ou...
ROCKY PETERSON Overall, I would have to give this effort a B minus, but for the first five innings we were better t...
CHAD SPALDING We knew we were going to be a lot better than we were before. Those (wins) just brought our confiden...
CHAZ ROOTS Wow, I didn't know we were up that much. I knew we were up a lot. It's frustrating to lose this game...
MICHAEL REDD She was calm. She's a great leader, and she's been here before. That's huge when you have the big ga...
DAVE KISER We were going to change this up, and if we get beat going in a different direction, so be it,
PAUL KONERKO We were a whole lot better. We stepped up our game. We knew what we had to do.
ANDRE HATCHETT In spurts we played well. But overall we have to play a lot better if we're going to win Friday (aga...
DERRICK DELTON I thought we did a really good job of playing defense in the second half. We picked up the pace a li...
JOE BRENNAN In the first half, we were playing kind of nonchalant. Sometimes our offense is off but we'll still ...
CAITLIN HYDUKE They had people fit in the right spots. They did a nice job of game planning the run against us. The...
BRIAN WHITE We're going to have bad breaks, but so many of the power-play goals we scored were game-winners.
MAXIM AFINOGENOV We were fired up. They were undefeated in their last [nine], but we've been playing well. We wanted ...
BRIAN SUTHERBY They were good, I have to admit. They were playing everything simple ball and everything was going t...
CARLOS FLORES They beat us in every phase of the game. It was not a match. We were just not ready to play at that ...
DAVE SHOJI Everybody's happy they were going to have it, but I don't know if they're happy right now.
JOE LUSARDI We really lost the game in the first half. We were perhaps still celebrating from our win the other ...
TEVESTER ANDERSON We were caught by surprise when we got to the stadium and Brandon had a stomach virus. He had a 103-...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't pl...
CHRIS ALLRED We were underdogs going into the Ely game and they were underdogs going into the Boyd Anderson game,...
AL LANG We had seen them before and knew we were going to have our hands full. I'm disappointed in not winni...
BILLY BAKER We came out and kind of set the tone right away. We left them know that it was our game but our defe...
MEGAN GEPHART I told them that we had done something very special, but that we were going to be a very different f...
JOE POWEL Giving us the 12th seed was the best thing they did for us. No one ever expects you to do anything b...
JAMES BOWMAN We made a vast improvement in our game plan. We were focused. We were ready to play. We're chipping ...
DAWN CHRISS They're a strong quick team and like to get up into the man to man defense. We know going in they li...
DANE BURKLAND
CHARLOTTE JONES We were not going to beat ourselves like we did the first week. We just didn't play the way we were ...
AARON BRANT I was real happy with our overall play, defense and hitting. We were hitting the ball, but it just d...
CONNIE FINN 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 I don't feel like we were the bad guys. We knew George Mason was a good team. One of our goals was t...
LEE HUMPHREY We still have to beat North Iredell in our last NPC game, but in the second half it felt like we wer...
BOB BLAKE They're a great offensive team. We just knew that every possession we were going to have to play har...
ALAN FOX I thought we set an early tone with our play on defense. Highland has some inexperience up front and...
AL MARTIN We had our mind made up that we were going to play some zone, but the way the game played out, we th...
JOE LAYNE We had to either prevent or slow down their counters by keeping our front court active and making th...
BREANA ALLISON We were wide open and we didn't need to rush. I don't know why we were rushing except that we were t...
TERRI MITCHELL We were excited to go to the tournament, play well and continue to improve with each game. We're hap...
BILL MACQUEEN If we hustle and play our game, we are going to be hard to beat. Our defense is going to have to con...
DAWN ENGLEMAN In the second half we played much better defense. We were able to get our transition game going. I t...
LORI ULFERTS We were the last team to beat them, and yeah that gives us confidence going into this game. The thin...
CURT OTT We are going to approach it like any other game, if we play our type of basketball I don't think any...
JAYENECA BAILEY Naturally, they were disappointed because we felt we were the No.1 seed for a reason. But we did not...
AL PEACOCK
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be E. LOCKHART We were struggling toward the middle of the season, so that's why we're going to have a low seed. We...
CHARLIE RIGOGLIOSO We didn't know what they were going to play on defense, and we had trouble in the first half. We mad...
LARRY DOLAN I told our girls I was happy with the way they fought back and took it to five games, but I thought ...
KRISTA MIKESCH We were real happy with our play early. The kids were really coming off the ball, playing excited on...
JAMES BLANKENSHIP That was a fun game for us. We knew we were going to need our top game to beat Ottawa with all the s...
ALES KOTALIK It was a great game. Our defense was excellent. We were able to move the ball well in the first half...
LARRY MILLIGAN We were going to have to play that kind of game, which we did.
LARRY IZZO We played a few different defenses in the first half and they played man. We have the top-ranked def...
LONNIE BRANTLEY We didn't play really good defense. That's why we were down 4-2. But the guys realized that after th...
DAVE BASEGGIO I know that if we're going to beat McNeese State, we've got to be better than we were against Alabam...
JEFF BOWER It's embarrassing. We know we were brutal. We sucked. The fans told us and they were right about tha...
DONALD BRASHEAR We weren't really looking at our height. We were just going to play team defense. We weren't worried...
ASHANTI COOK As a defense, we didn't play very well in (the AFC Championship game) and that's going to be in the ...
DICK LEBEAU I had a sneaky suspicion that we were going to play better the second half, ... I saw that even prio...
LOU PINIELLA We were awake. But we were just ready to play the game, so I don't know if we were listening to what...
DONNY BUNCE I have to congratulate Lake Central. They played better than us in every aspect of the game. ... We ...
AMY GOVERT Were not happy with our effort tonight but you've got to get your head back up and win a game tomorr...
MIKE CAMMALLERI You know, I thought we might end up third. We knew Columbus and New London were the two teams we'd h...
DON EGGENBURG Ozzie wanted to try to put his stamp on the team with some speed and more defense, and the overall a...
PAUL KONERKO We were holding the ball and giving the defense a break. We were giving the defense a chance to beat...
DAVE NICHOLS We noticed that when they put up a shot, only one of their guys was going to the board and the rest ...
BRETT MCFARLAND We beat a team that we were supposed to beat and we beat them handily. It should not have been a clo...
JACKIE TURPIN Yeah, I'm happy to see that happen, but I wasn't happy that we were down 10. We have this thing wher...
GERALD COX It was a hard-fought game. A real battle the entire time. There were so many lead changes that no le...
TOM ROBERGE I think that we played pretty well, and the big thing was that in the last 20 minutes of the game, w...
DAVE DONAHUE I think we were focused coming in. They beat us pretty good at our place and we wanted to bounce bac...
SHAWN ALMOND I thought we were going to beat her up.
DOROTHY HALLAS Our team [on Sunday], we were hurting. The coaches and the players were disappointed, frustrated, th...
DIRK KOETTER We were playing good defense and we were running our offense okay but we had to pick it up. We kept ...
CATHERINE BOVE We needed a little time to warm up, ... After the first game, we warmed up. We were a lot more inten...
ERICA GARCIA I think it was definitely our defense because some nights we were horrible shooting. Our defense is ...
HOLLY PADDOCK If we were going to fold our tents, that was a time to do it, but we didn't. We stepped up when our ...
ERNIE HUGHES There were a couple of first game jitters for us with guys jumping off side and stuff like that. Ove...
BILL HUDSPITH There was a lot of concern about who was going to pitch this year, what are we going to do, sort of ...
MICHAEL LOTIEF We were having good shots, but we weren't getting many clean rebounds that usually lead to points in...
JACK SCHRADER We just weren't ourselves today. Even though our shots were off, we didn't play the defense we neede...
KOJO MENSAH We played well on defense. We were able to hold them in check pretty well in the half court. But ove...
DON MORELAND His message was that every game is tough and, yeah, we finished undefeated and, yeah, we won the nat...
MATT LEINART The confidence to beat the Yankees developed over a few years, ... Finally, we got to where we knew ...
ALAN EMBREE We like to play fast, and I felt like we were playing slow the whole game because we were having a h...
ED ORTEGO Our defense was the difference for us in this game. We knew going in that they were not a good three...
JOSH MCKAY We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We ...
BRIAN FITZGERALD We knew we were going to beat them. We had it set in our minds since the first hour of practice. We ...
BRIAN FITZGERALD We've got to boost our enthusiasm up and play hard and come out and just have fun and play like we'v...
CHAD HENNE I really thought that we were going to be one of the teams to beat in state. Unfortunately, because ...
COACH RUSTY TAYLOR Some of the kids got beat up. But overall I thought the kids were outstanding and wrestled against s...
GEORGE FOTENOS It's hard to beat them at whatever level we meet them at. We were hoping that since we got past area...
ANTHONY JAMISON It's going to be harder than it was last year. We were able to sneak up on people last year, with ou...
CHRIS DUHON I think we did a great job of not giving up the big play. There were some missed tackles, but overal...
SKIP HOLTZ Our goal is to play better than their defense, ... That's most important. And that's every game. We ...
ANTWAN PEEK We knew that they were a team that played a tough physical style. We just wanted to play our style o...
COLLEEN CHRISTIAN We're still making adjustments in personnel to get to where we want to be. But we need to play bette...
GARY GIANCOLA We felt that we were going to have a strong year overall both covering and returning kicks and I sti...
LARRY IZZO We knew coming in that UGF was going to make our guards beat them, and we were ready.
BRIAN ORR We set the tone from the start of the game that we were going to play hard and make it tough on them...
CLIFFORD ROBINSON We're a much better team than we were when we played them in December. But they're also a great team...
BRAD CHASTEEN Both teams were patient on offense, but we definitely stressed at halftime that we had to pick up ou...
ROCKY PETERSON Overall, I would have to give this effort a B minus, but for the first five innings we were better t...
CHAD SPALDING We knew we were going to be a lot better than we were before. Those (wins) just brought our confiden...
CHAZ ROOTS Wow, I didn't know we were up that much. I knew we were up a lot. It's frustrating to lose this game...
MICHAEL REDD She was calm. She's a great leader, and she's been here before. That's huge when you have the big ga...
DAVE KISER We were going to change this up, and if we get beat going in a different direction, so be it,
PAUL KONERKO We were a whole lot better. We stepped up our game. We knew what we had to do.
ANDRE HATCHETT In spurts we played well. But overall we have to play a lot better if we're going to win Friday (aga...
DERRICK DELTON I thought we did a really good job of playing defense in the second half. We picked up the pace a li...
JOE BRENNAN In the first half, we were playing kind of nonchalant. Sometimes our offense is off but we'll still ...
CAITLIN HYDUKE They had people fit in the right spots. They did a nice job of game planning the run against us. The...
BRIAN WHITE We're going to have bad breaks, but so many of the power-play goals we scored were game-winners.
MAXIM AFINOGENOV We were fired up. They were undefeated in their last [nine], but we've been playing well. We wanted ...
BRIAN SUTHERBY They were good, I have to admit. They were playing everything simple ball and everything was going t...
CARLOS FLORES They beat us in every phase of the game. It was not a match. We were just not ready to play at that ...
DAVE SHOJI Everybody's happy they were going to have it, but I don't know if they're happy right now.
JOE LUSARDI We really lost the game in the first half. We were perhaps still celebrating from our win the other ...
TEVESTER ANDERSON We were caught by surprise when we got to the stadium and Brandon had a stomach virus. He had a 103-...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE We were coming off our moratorium, and we had a few shots that just didn't fall for us. We didn't pl...
CHRIS ALLRED We were underdogs going into the Ely game and they were underdogs going into the Boyd Anderson game,...
AL LANG We had seen them before and knew we were going to have our hands full. I'm disappointed in not winni...
BILLY BAKER We came out and kind of set the tone right away. We left them know that it was our game but our defe...
MEGAN GEPHART I told them that we had done something very special, but that we were going to be a very different f...
JOE POWEL Giving us the 12th seed was the best thing they did for us. No one ever expects you to do anything b...
JAMES BOWMAN We made a vast improvement in our game plan. We were focused. We were ready to play. We're chipping ...
DAWN CHRISS They're a strong quick team and like to get up into the man to man defense. We know going in they li...
DANE BURKLAND
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