University of Northern Iowa Athletics
UNI-Illinois State Men's Basketball Quotes
2/24/2007 7:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
"It puts a bounce back in your step. You get confidence in winning basketball games. You feel good about the way you are playing."
"Grant (Stout) his two big threes in the second half. He also went and got some rebounds. He played a good game. Brooks (McKowen) was there when we needed him the most. After having not scored the whole game those were big free throws in the final minute. Adam Koch was terrific. The freshman made some big plays. We told him to be aggressive, but that was just Adam making plays."
"This game was huge especially because the seniors meant so much to the program. T-Griff (Tyler Griffin works so hard in practice and gives a great effort. Brooks and Grant are just great leaders."
"More importantly we've got some momentum going to St. Louis. It does a lot for out confidence. We've got to win three in a row and winning the conference would be huge for the whole team."
"We just wanted to come out and get a win because we've lost a couple we should have won here at home."
"It gives us a huge boost because we had been struggling. We were close in some earlier games but we couldn't get over the hump. Tonight gives us a boost and that confidence is huge."
"I thought we had some opportunities tonight that we just missed. We had a breakdown on a backdoor layup and a check-out on a rebound."
"When Eric Coleman plays like that he can't be stopped. When we trap him, he's such a good passer. He's the hardest guy to guard in the league when he plays like that. We couldn't guard him one-on-one."
