University of Northern Iowa Athletics
Post-Game Quotes
2/22/2006 7:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 22, 2006
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"To hold (UNI) to 49 points in their own building is great. They can shoot the ball well and I thought we did a good job contesting shots. We handled the ball well and took good shots. We developed another level of confidence to get this done tonight."
"I've got a lot of respect for Greg (McDermott) and his program. I think we just played well and it was about our defense (in the two wins this season)."
"It's always important to have a good start and keep it on them. So when they make their runs we will still have a cushion."
"(J.J.) Tauai hit two threes early and (Daniel) Ruffin hit one and that forced us to change our game plan in midstream."
"We used some zone to get them out of their flow. After watching tape of them against Missouri State and Tennessee Tech it looked the zone was disrupting their rhythm. But we couldn't do that because they seemed to hit three-pointers when we did that."
"We're not clicking on all cylinders and we will try and fix that. Fortunately we have enough experience and maturity to do that. Unfortunately in the final game in the UNI-Dome we played our worst game at home in five years."
"We let our emotion get in the way of our execution."
"We wanted to finish first but we still have some goals left to accomplish. We have a huge game on Saturday for seeding purposes in the Missouri Valley tournament. The conference tournament will be huge as we get ready for the NCAA tournament."
