Chris Lowery Quotes (64 Quotes)

There are no similarities between our teams. They're good offensively and, right now, we struggle with our youth and with our inability to make shots at times.

That was as good an effort from any big guy we've had in a long time. We set him up to have success. He made those plays and that was the difference in the game. He hasn't made those plays with the same passes and reads. That's the way we expect him to play.

Any time you have a good team, they rally around things. That is what makes college basketball fun - to rally behind a cause within a season. I expect to get the best shot they can give us, just like everyone in the league.

We wanted to make sure we didn't let (Wichita State) get off threes. They've been shooting the basketball extremely well here.

Without a doubt, they're the best front line in our league.

Their experience level far outreaches our tradition. Yes, we have great tradition and we expect to win, but the difference was their tremendous experience over us.

I think people don't understand that we have been here for a while. Everybody assumes this is our first trip. It doesn't really respect what we've done in the past. The guys do have a chip on their shoulder because they do watch TV and hear the things that are said about mid-majors and about our league and about us stealing bids away from other people.

Obviously, we helped ourselves today, and that's good for the program, but we still have work to do in our minds. Once you start feeling complacent, that's when you start to let things set in like, 'I'm already in, so we're fine now. Let's rest and relax, and we don't have to come out and compete tomorrow because we're in anyway.' We're going to fight tomorrow.

I told them if they step up and play hard and make (Bradley) look you in the eye, we'll judge and see who is the toughest. And our kids did that.

I think that's the first time he's seen a Valley game (in person), if I'm correct. And he got a chance to see two good teams who are going to promote our league very well. I think any time you do that, and a national guy sees it, then he gains a lot more respect for your program and your conference.

I think it's ridiculous, honestly. It doesn't matter if a third party steps in, it's going to be hard for us to get games at home against anybody. I don't care who steps in.

Pretty basketball just on the offensive end is not going to win you games come tournament time.

You hear all this talk about how good our league is, but our league is very, very good. It's very competitive. There's a lot of parity in our league.

We don't have a senior on scholarship. Every chance he plays another game - every chance our whole team plays another game - allows us to get better and allows us to see where we can head as a team. I think that was impressive for these guys to be down and then to fight back and come away with a victory.

He's a fighter, and he'll get down there and mix it up with those guys. He's not afraid to get his nose knocked off.

He will be fine. If we had to play today, he would play. We are just trying to be cautious and make sure we try and get him back at 100 percent before we go.

I saw it happen and I was like wow I thought she was hurt worse than she was but I heard she's pretty much okay.

We can't just be happy about getting in. When you get complacent about getting in, you're done in the first round. Obviously, if we want to validate what our league is, you better have somebody get past the first weekend so we don't have guys on the national news programs saying, 'I told you so.

We've just done about everything you could do in road games. We've played afternoon games, late games, a morning game...So it shouldn't affect us starting late again.

In the trenches, we were very, very good today.

We got panicked, and our youth showed.

We have to win until they tell us to go home. I'm not going to set parameters because then the NCAA (Selection) Committee might get a whiff of it. I don't want any parameters set on anybody in our league. I just want them to look at what our RPI is as a league, and do what they have done in the past with leagues with that same RPI.

You change that perception by going out and winning.

You get abused like that, and it's good for them. It's like big brother stuff. You get kicked around, and then when he goes to college you grow up. That's how we've got to look at this team.

It's our opportunity to prove how good our league is. If we get emotional about what they're saying, it takes away from our game plan and what we're going to try to do to win games.

He had so many weapons last year, and now they have to manufacture wins by doing different things. That's the sign of a good coach, when you can manufacture wins when you're not making shots.

It's a chess match every time we play them.

That's stuff media guys talk about The letdown, the trap game. We don't talk about stuff like that. That's a reason why we've been successful.

There are no similarities between the two teams because they are very good offensively, and we've struggled with our youth and our inability to make shots.

Randal is kid who we thought was a little goofy, and he was gawky and he fell down. On his recruiting trip, he asked, 'Why are you all recruiting me' That's Randal being how he is. His work ethic is tremendous. He's gotten in the weight room. He has a tremendous left-hand (shot). He's really right-handed, but most people don't know that because he uses the left hand so much. He can be so talented, and you saw it today.

He knows what he did is wrong, and he understands there will be consequences.

I don't know if there is a better shooting team in the country.

It's a chance for those guys to watch you compete late in the season on TV.

Personally No. I take pride in seeing our kids happy after a game. That's what makes me happy. Just to see them happy and excited about winning a game. Not to see them totally just mentally done. I want to see them walk out of the Arena happy after we win a game.

He's an NBA guy. All the scouts love him. Our fans will get a chance to see a really good inside player.

I don't think we're being overlooked. I think we're being disrespected. Our kids feel that way. I just think that people around the league think it's over for us and we can't compete for another Valley championship and we can't compete for postseason play.

We are just worrying about us. We are going to make them play the way we play. We are still going to grind it out, take their stuff away, be patient and take the breaks when we can.

We really prepare to stop people. We are really committed to doing it. We have played against good offensive teams and shut them down. You have to respect the talent that is at West Virginia, and their ability to find weaknesses in our defense.

All the national media has said, 'Take those Missouri Valley teams and put them in the Big East and we'll see how good they are,' and I think the committee listened to them. Now (we're) going to try to see how good we really are.

You're already an extension of the coach. Obviously you learn how to talk to people on the team. You're like a coach and that's a huge advantage.

Jamaal Tatum has been scoring for us. Now he's starting to do the little things that make us better.

They (the Sycamores) have all their weapons now, so we expect them to play hard. They played very good against us at their place, so we don't expect anything different here.

It's just a chess match when we play them, and we take a lot of their stuff away that other people can't, and they're actually able to guard us and keep us out of the paint.

We just got to go out and play and look at it like it's another team trying to keep us out of first place. We can't worry about the streaks. We can't worry about the 32 in a row, 41 in the league. We gotta worry about staying in first place. That's what our main concern is.

It's winning time. The conference right now is as crazy as it's ever been.

You can't be mad at your kids based on three minutes of the game. It was an incredible college basketball game.

It's very neat because obviously two guys from the same high school having the opportunity to be Division I coaches normally doesn't happen. But we saw the same thing in (Evansville Harrison graduates) Calbert Cheaney, Walter McCarty and Kevin Hardy all being pro athletes at the same time.

The guys do have a chip on their shoulder because they do watch TV and they do hear the things that are said about mid-majors and about our league stealing bids away from other people. That upsets us.

We ran into a buzz saw today. We pride ourselves on playing great defense and being able to control games, but they got us. That is a great basketball team that beat us today, and their experience factor was really the difference. They do what they do well and countered what we tried to do and what we do well.

We're pretty confident. We've played very well in the last four games. We don't want to get caught up in the awe of the NCAA tournament.