Ron Lievense Quotes (23 Quotes)

He had a great game at Mount Olive, and another good one last Saturday. For him to get a third player-of-the week honor is certainly something to be proud of. I am proud of him, especially since the season is not over. I am tremendously excited for him.

What I keep telling my guys is to take it one day at a time and get better.

Certainly, it's great for the school but our focus is to take one day at a time right now. Our focus right now is Queens (University) this is a big week for us.

Our group of men pulled together and found a way to handle their pressure. They picked up their pressure they were scramble-trapping us and rotating and our guys found a way to handle it with Anthony in foul trouble. I was very proud of the way our guys pulled together in that situation and allowed us to keep the lead.

It's a great honor. I am certainly very proud of him and what he has brought to this team. He is rebounding, sharing the ball and hitting foul shots. I am so proud of how he has improved.

Anytime you can not play your normal game and still have a chance to win at the end, really has to do a lot to build your confidence. Certainly I would imagine that our guys' confidence is high right now going into this.

(Bradley) is a tremendous guard. He's got great range and has the green light. He can flat-out play. He can flat-out get anything done penetrate, shoot and drive to the basket.

I was really concerned about this game going in because of (Limestone) beating us here last year. That was one of our goals over the year, that Limestone not beat us again at home.

We really had a hard time getting intensity. We really struggled with the intensity, we really struggled with focus.

Certainly going in, there were tremendous question marks. And there still are. There are many things we are not doing well right now that we have to continue to improve upon. That's our main focus.

Certainly the guys are excited. They're excited for not only this team getting there but they're excited for Barton College. It's tremendously exciting for all of us.

I'm so thankful for the great fan support we've had this year. The community has really been behind us. It really lifts the heart of the team, and it encourages them.

People have looked at our size all season and wonder how we got here and how we won 28 games. We're not going to look good in an airport. One coach called us the best below the rim team he'd ever seen, so I guess we're not all that athletic.

That's three games in a row that he's played really unselfish, hard-nosed basketball.

I just felt like we didn't play as a team. It was a very disappointing loss. I don't want to take anything away from Limestone because they're a team that can beat anybody in our league on any given night. But certainly it's discouraging to me because we'd hoped we'd go down there and get a victory for Barton College.

People don't understand what this is like. We played Thursday at Belmont Abbey and got back at 230 in the morning. Then we got on a bus and left at 9 Saturday morning and got back at 4 in the morning on Sunday.

Being there was some of the best years of my life. Me and my wife had some of the fondest memories during our time there.

What is key in this business is what are you going to do tomorrow I hope we will have grown and will handle success much better.

I think he's having an outstanding season. He came back to Barton a lot better basketball player. He had a good year for us last year, but, now, he's having a great year. He's making great strides, and it's showing.

He was a warrior tonight he gave it everything he had. His body was cramping from the first 10 minutes of the game and he found a way to fight through it. He threw his heart and soul out there for Barton tonight.

We got a lead and got complacent and didn't finish the game. My bench was lackadaisical, my team was lackadaisical and we're happy to end with a victory but we'd like to do it without letting them come back.

They have athletes, they have shooters, they play really smart basketball, they take good shots and they defend hard. I'm really counting on (our) guys to get plenty of rest.

The thing that we did well was make the extra pass. I thought we were crisp. We really had great ball movement and penetrated their zone well. We took two steps forward in those areas.