Tom Nelligan Quotes (11 Quotes)

It's business as usual. But we'll celebrate tonight.

He was the difference in the game. We were having a hard time against their zone, and we decided we needed a bit more of a scorer in there and he was phenomenal. He's a sophomore, but he played like a senior tonight.

There's no doubt we need all these guys. We understand that the deeper you go into your bench this time of the year, the better you are going to be.

We had a hard time scoring today. We're not the type of team that's made to come back from a big deficit like that, and once we got down 13 or 14, it was hard to come back.

Chris knows how to play within himself. He's going to make an excellent coach one day. He generally makes good decisions and really knows how to fill his (fifth) starter role.

When you're shooting the ball the way we were good things are just going to happen.

We have experienced guys who came out ready to play. You can tell if a team is ready to play by how hard they guard. We came out and did a good job defensively on them.

He certainly has the talent. There was a handful of games this season where he's sparked us.

They're big and strong. They have a couple of good big men around the basket and with their experienced guards, this should be a very good game.

We aren't that big of a team. But I think we defend with a certain level of tenacity. I think we play a little bit bigger than we really are, too. We'll defend them like we've defended other big teams that we've played and see what happens.

That's what you expect out of all-county kids. If they don't make plays, you don't win games like this. They're not afraid to fail.