Feb. 4, 2009

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Brian Gregory
"The reason we won the game was we got four or five offensive rebounds at the end of the game. We kept on our guys that the glass was going to be the difference in the game. They are so good on the offensive glass, that's how they came back and tied it up. In the last few minutes, we emerged from the depths of not going to the glass. Charles (Little) forced on out of bounds on them and Kurt (Huelsman) and Chris (Wright) forced an extra possession. On that last shot we just tried to have Chris drive to the basket and get a good shot on the play."

"Everybody stretched out the driving area for Chris. With everybody stretched out, it creates rebounding avenues and that's where Marcus (Johnson) came in."

"You fight it. We played at such a high intensity on Sunday and I thought we had it tonight. I think we were dialed in. When you have a 17-point lead, I think a couple guys dialed down. That team is good and they are tough. They don't care what the score is, they keep coming at you. They run a different system that you never see anywhere else with the guards posting up and the bigs spacing. Those guards can score and zip passes off the dribble, so if you double down, they get open shots. We got big stops at the end."

"We held them from 42 percent from the field. If you take away their points off of our 19 atrocious turnovers, our defense in the half court was really good."

Marcus Johnson
"Chris had a drive and he got knocked off balance. I came in and was at the right place at the right time. I got the ball off the backboard and put it in."

"It's heart and toughness, mental toughness. We've played in these tough games and in these situations. We've been in this before. That's the good thing about this team. In clutch times, we are at our best."

"It was tough. Green was taller than me and he's a guard that posts up. That's tough for me to defend, but I played him as good as possible. He's a great guard."