Mike Dement Quotes (10 Quotes)

We've played a tough schedule with a lot of road games and played well at times. You want your experience to take over. Maybe this will give us a little confidence going into two tough places.

Each time we play in this type of environment, we play a little better. Hopefully, that will continue with the upcoming game against NC State. We are in a tough stretch right now.

This is a great atmosphere for college basketball. Their students were great, and our folks who came over were great, too.

As difficult as that will be, in a way it's like a tournament-type week. You've got no time to prepare for the next team, so it gives us a little bit of a simulation before we go into the Southern Conference tournament. At least that's the way we'll try to approach it.

Turnovers were the biggest disappointment. A lot of turnovers that we just haven't done in a lot of games. We've played 14 games. We should be valuing the ball a little better.

I thought Ricky did the best job at halftime. He made a great statement, and that's what you need. Ricky's an upperclassman and when those guys start making statements and demands than we can become a good team.

I thought we played well offensively for a while, but we got tired and that hurt us on both ends. Each time we play in these environments, Vanderbilt, South Carolina, and now Duke, we play a little better. So hopefully we will improve again the next time out.

We're the kings of not getting loose balls. We've been trying to get them to be more aggressive. I thought we did a better job of that tonight.

They had a nice mix and a nice chemistry and it all came together for them at a nice time.

Davidson was good tonight. They were efficient and we weren't aggressive defensively. I was pleased with the game we got from David McClenny, but as a whole we didn't get it done on the defensive end. We are a totally different team on the road defensively right now than what we are at home and hopefully we can get it back together.