Steve Ridder Quotes (8 Quotes)

We challenged Ben to make his contributions on defense he was to go at (No.) 52 (Burr). Ben was a big part of that. Making that adjustment was probably the key to the game.

We think we are way better shooters than that. So we've been investing a lot more time on that in practice.

I think we were mentally prepared for this game. After losing the other night at Florida Memorial, we identified some areas that needed work, and we worked them--especially on the defensive end. Looks like it paid off well tonight.

We were a team tonight, in the truest sense of the word, because we have quality people in uniform. We don't have any ego-type players. These guys get out of bed every day trying to figure out ways to help this team.

We've had more scoring punch in the past and better athletes. I don't think our guys would disagree with that. We had to put more emphasis on defense. I think we have a chip on our shoulder a little bit. We wanted to become the very best defensive team in our history.

Denny had a couple of tough weeks of basketball, but he's hung in there. He's had great practices this week and there was a correlation tonight.

In our conference, every night is a war. Webber does a great job of coming into everybody's gym and taking it to you. I think we took a giant step tonight.

We are providing Jared with some athletic scholarship monies as a small token of our appreciation and to reward him for all the work he has done.