Steve Cleveland Quotes (13 Quotes)

Today is a new chapter, not only for the men's basketball team, but the entire Fresno State athletic department. We feel the NCAA has treated us fairly. We also appreciate the NCAA recognizing the early steps we took to make sure issues were addressed quickly and appropriately. We are committed to fully comply with NCAA rules. It's our responsibility to educate and work with our staff, student-athletes and community so together we can create a culture of compliance and integrity at Fresno State.

This is probably the best shooting night we've had home or away. We shot the ball well, but we didn't rebound. We got hurt on the boards and defensively we really struggled.

That ball has to be precious every possession. You've got to take care of the basketball.

This was the most dysfunctional game I've ever been in. This was the first time this year that we did not play as a team. Whatever the issues were, we did not compete on either end of the floor. In the last seven or eight minutes we finally started guarding people and that's when we made our run.

We've tried to make it a 94-foot game to kind of hide some of our weaknesses in the interior areas.

Utah State really shot the ball well. I thought we did a great job on their post guys in the first half, and their perimeter guys kind of hurt us. Then in the second half, we did a better job on the perimeter, but the post guys kind of took it to us.

When we got here in May, we had some time. Some were already committed. Some said, considering the stuff that was going on, they weren't interested.

You to have to appreciate when you beat a quality team. You have to enjoy the fact that the game plan was executed, that we competed and just had an all-around contribution. You just have to enjoy it even for a little bit.

You have to just focus on the moment and every opportunity. We know we're coming here and playing a really good basketball team that really plays well at home, and that's great motivation.

We had no answer for some of their big guys the last time. So we're just going to have to play our game and hope our shots fall this time.

I thought we played for the (first) 17 minutes, then we got in a funk. You have to give them credit for that.

The second half, we just had some breakdowns on both ends of the floor. We had open looks at the 3, but it didn't go down. We just weren't able to get anything consistent inside.

If you don't have those things you're going to live or die with the jumper. That's kind of how it was for us.