Jeff Mittie Quotes (16 Quotes)

I saw a lot of confused looks from the newcomers, ... I expect that from freshmen. They'll learn quickly because of the number of returnees. They did show some good sparks at different times today.

It's a missed opportunity. I don't know any other way to look at it. There is a lot of basketball left, and we got a good Utah team coming in Saturday, but we had our opportunities.

My experience is I wouldn't trust anything anybody is saying. My hope is that we're going to get many, many teams in the tournament.

Every game presents different challenges but the fact that they have similar athletes to AM -- we saw some things last night that will be the same. It's not like you're playing two totally different styles in 48 hours. Now that can be a big challenge.

We told the team everybody is going to have to pick it up a little. It's an opportunity for someone to come in and make plays.

We exercised patience, and we pushed the ball and it surprised them at times. We made some big shots when needed to.

The committee has always told us to go out and schedule (tough opponents). We did that and took our lumps early, but we played well late.

I thought the steal was huge.

We've got to finish strong, because of the strength of schedule, and 17 and 18 wins gets us in the tournament. The committee needs to treat the MWC like some of the bigger conferences and make sure we get some teams in the tournament. This has been one of the strongest years in the Mountain West Conference's history.

They have some young players and we designed the defense early to try and not give them anything easy. I thought players did an excellent job of that.

I hope to find some. And if I do, I'm not going to tell you until tonight.

We're trying to do a lot of offense early. The fall provided that opportunity because of the new NCAA rules. There are still things that we are doing with this team, such as moving players into new positions. In the early part of practice, we are trying to see where these interchangeable parts can be used in our motion offense.

We executed the game plan. At times we had to be patient and at times we had to push the ball and we hit big shots. I'm very proud of our kids.

I felt like the schedule had a chance to hurt us if we didn't take it the right way. At the end of December you could see the team growing and gaining confidence.

That's as good as any team I've seen all year, and we had some pretty good teams on our schedule. I thought we did some things decent, but Rutgers was just fantastic tonight.

The positive was our team play was further ahead. I thought our guards played the way they should have. They played like I expected since they're the veterans.