“I liked Ryan's shot selection. He took the ones that were there. And because they know he can shoot, they keyed on him and that gave our other guys more room to operate.”
“Defense has been our bread and butter this season. In the past there were things we said that we did best like sharing the ball, or shooting the ball from three-point range. But we play great team defense.”
“In our conference, every night is a war. Webber does a great job of coming into everybody's gym and taking it to you. I think we took a giant step tonight.”
“They played 39 minutes and 45 seconds of zone defense and controlled the tempo. We never got into the type of game we like to play. I think tonight was a great example of what can happen when we don't have a constant 3-point shooting threat.”
“We challenged Ben to make his contributions on defense; he was to go at (No.) 52 (Burr). Ben was a big part of that. Making that adjustment was probably the key to the game.”
