Mark Turgeon Quotes (66 Quotes)

We've got good players, and I thought we were in a pod we were very capable of winning if we played well.

I knew we had good players. But for this group to do what it has been doing has been a pleasant surprise.

When we shoot well, we're pretty darn good. We always try to defend and rebound, but we look better when we make shots. Today, we were pretty hard to guard.

I really don't know what to say. I'm thrilled with the win. We're 2-0 in the league, but every night is going to be a battle.

I'm not afraid to play Nick Rogers.

I do think that we've gotten some scrutiny that we don't deserve. All we did was go out and win games. We went out and scheduled people and played people on the road. We were smarter than most of America in our scheduling with the Ratings Percentage Index, and we had some unfair scrutiny.

It's great for the Colonial Athletic Association and great for the Missouri Valley that we're in this situation. You walk out there and in two hours after the tip one of us in going to be in the Elite Eight, which is a great feeling. It should be an evenly-matched game but I know we're going to have to play very well, especially in this environment.

He had a tough night at Southern it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

It's something the people here have wanted for a long time.

I don't think we played particularly well in the first half. We didn't play together. We didn't play the way that led us to a league championship and the Sweet 16. Our shot selection hurt us in the first half.

I have been saying three or four teams the whole time. The last couple of days, we've gotten so much publicity that it's almost been negative.

If you put a gun to my head, I would say we would get four in. But there's a lot of basketball left, and the upsets will hurt a lot of at-large teams.

He's playing smarter than he has in the past. Kyle's made himself a little bit better athlete. He's been in great shape the whole time, which he needed to do.

We can't let one loss affect the next day. If we do, we're going to lose 16 straight in this league. We're 2-1. We're 11-3, and we've got a home game.

I think if everyone in this room had a gun to his head, you'd say 'Shockers are in the tournament. We're going to prepare like we're in the tournament and I think we've earned it.

I told anybody who asked me that I thought we were going to play well offensively. We were fresh. We might have figured out a way to win the game 65-63 if we didn't make shots. But because we did it looked easy, even though it actually wasn't.