Tod Kowalczyk Quotes (26 Quotes)

Josh Lawrence is a guy that's very dear to me. He's one of the very first guys that said 'yes' to this program. Even though he was struggling early on, I kept saying he deserved my loyalty.

I thought we defended it pretty well. But I'd like to see us make those foul shots so it didn't matter.

My mother died of cancer, so it's something that's very dear to me.

We played a little bit too slow, a little bit too casual, and didn't do a very good job defensively in the second half. We didn't do a good job guarding Polk.

I've said all along this team is going to be very young, very inexperienced but very talented. This team is going to need patience from myself, from the fans and from the media.

The key to that game was our bench. I've been disappointed, not with the play of our bench, but more so the energy and enthusiasm and emotion. We preached the last few days to be excited on the bench.

Ultimately, it comes down to a half-court game. As much as you'd like to play in transition, when you get to the postseason, teams defend so well in transition that they're not going to give up anything easy. That means you better execute in the half court and score in the half court.

Obviously, our goal is to play in the NCAA Tournament. But if we can finish in the top three consistently, that's an unbelievable thing. We've done it three straight years.

It had nothing to do with him shooting 8-for-12. It had everything to do with him going to the foul line six times. If he can get to the foul line, he can score.

We missed a lot of open shots. There were some really good looks that we missed.

I think we've been in most games -- I mean besides the Youngstown game -- we should have won that Detroit game -- but the main thing is for our guys to be consistent.

I would think that game would sell out in a very short period of time.

We played a complete game at both ends of the floor, and that's what this team needed to do. It needed to play an entire game and see how good we can be.

We got exposed against them the last time. When that happens, you re-evaluate and have a chance to do something about it. You can either get better or ignore it.

We've got too many guys making too many turnovers. It's got to stop. Turnovers will end your season in a hurry.

It very well may be (too tough). I felt having a young team and a talented team that I wanted to challenge them early and get them to play at a high level. In order to do that, you have to play against good competition.

We've been gearing for that all year, to play our best basketball down the stretch, and hopefully we do.

For whatever reason, we had a very difficult time filling that tournament. I'm against playing Division II teams, but sometimes your back is against the wall, and you have to fill out your schedule.

We wanted to keep him yielded. Tonight I challenged Josh Lawrence, who is a very good defender, to do that.

Early on I thought we weren't attacking the zone, playing too far out. But once we decided to start attacking the zone and playing within our shooting range, we got a lot better looks.

As a player you want to be one of those guys that's indispensable, someone you need to have on the floor at all times. He's a freshman and he's going to be a good basketball player.

Whether you call it rebuilding or reloading, you're going to have those years. I was told by (someone) that if you can get 15 wins in a rebuilding year, that's a heck of a deal. So 15 wins in that situation was good.

We played very good basketball against an athletic team. It was nice to see us get better in some areas.

This is the best chemistry we've had. I think our guys enjoy coming to practice.

Ryan had a great night. He is good when he's aggressive.

I'm really proud of how our guys gutted it out. Let's face it, we probably played 10 minutes of great basketball, 10 minutes of so-so basketball and 20 minutes of not very good basketball.