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To be honest with you, I thought he was having a heart attack this morning. He went down and had shortness of breath. He kind of goes down to his knees and I thought he was having some sort of heart issue. I think it scared everybody.

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Those were as tough a couple of losses as I've had in a long time. In each game, we had a chance to get a stop to win it, and then we got an offensive chance to win it and we came up empty each time.

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Kersten has done a hell of a job. I was down there twice, and I don't remember him. I'm watching him on tape right now, and I think he is really good.

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I think he's done an amazing job to keep it all together, especially without Welch. I don't think anybody in this league thought they could sustain it.

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Andrew was the heart and soul of last year's team. For someone who accomplished so much in such a short period of time, I think Andrew is certainly worthy of the honor.

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I think (sophomore guard) Chris Grant has done a very good job. His assist-to-turnover ratio is best on the team, and he does the little things that we need right now. We don't need to mess with that.

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He's a horse down there. We tried to front him, had four different people guard him and were doubling him at the end.

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It was huge getting a stop right before halftime. LB, by being disciplined and getting a hand up and not fouling him, got our guys jacked up going into halftime.

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As the head coach, I retain the right to discipline my players for a variety of reasons.

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They like to get out and double and get out and pressure us full court. We need to execute our press offense and try to be strong with it (the ball). We have seen a lot of it now. Our press offense should be something that we understand where we need to go and what we need to do.

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We're having a tough time right now. We've just got to keep swinging and keep grinding.

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I think he has a chance to be really good. I was probably more impressed in person than I was on tape. He's explosive, and he really plays with a high energy and kind of a chip on his shoulder, which you have to on that post spot. I think he has a great future.

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I'm just proud of our team. We stayed focused for a long period of time. Even when BYU was playing well, our guys had a different look in their eyes.

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They were the hardest team I've had to prepare for in 20 years of coaching. A lot of it is the Princeton system, but a lot of it is (Mooney's) coaching. They had a counter for every (defensive) thing we tried to do against that offense.

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If he's preached (balance), he's done a great job. The message has gotten through and his players have bought in.

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It's a great opportunity for him. It's one of those situations where he's worked his butt off for a number of years. He's very deserving. We hate to see him go, but that's how it works.

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We really need to work on the things that we can control. It all starts defensively. We can control our effort, our talking and our ability to understand what we are trying to do out there. We need to just get back to the basics.

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Obviously, the timing of this is not great for us, but we will grant Richard his request. We wish him the best of luck.

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If the team ever needed a win, we needed one today. I take my hat off to our kids for enduring a tough week, not only on the floor, but off the floor. This is just what the doctor ordered.

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To give back to the university like that is unbelievable.

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It's been hard for us taking pride in our defense, and hopefully we were able to take a step in the right direction today.

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He does one thing really well shoot the basketball. He's not too difficult to scout.

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I'll take the blame. We were not ready to play. And when you're not ready to go, how quickly something can turn and bite you.

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We need to have a great effort defensively and take care of the basketball. I can't imagine us not being emotionally charged up to play them.

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Randy would do a great job, he's ready to be a head coach. I don't think he has a weakness. He just needs the opportunity. None of us had head coaching experience until we got our first chance.

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