Brian Brandtner Played Quotations

He's a stud. One of the first games of the year he hurt his thumb, but played through it. That affected his shot, but he's turned it up.

He is the most dominant player in the area. Ask any coach that played against us how much they had to game plan against him. Any coach that says he doesn't want him is a liar.

I thought we came out and played hard; we guarded well and got the ball down the floor. We really looked to push the ball a lot more, and I thought we were successful in doing that.

Jeff won the game for us tonight, I don't think there's any doubt about that. Jeff played great. He carried us. He hit the big shots when we needed it. He got the big rebounds when we needed them.

We're deeper than I showed tonight. I just felt with their size advantage and the pressure they were putting, I had to have fewer guys in the game. They're deep. They can come at you with a bunch of big bodies and coach Scott uses them well. They crashed the boards, got up and down and they played a great game.

We played pretty well in spurts. It was a game of spurts, and I guess our last spurt was just barely good enough to win.

It was one heck of a game. Puxico came out and played their butts off. They gave us everything they had and we were lucky enough to come out on top.

I want to give Verona credit, they came out and played extremely well. I think that's a sign of what a great team's about. We weren't exactly on our game and they played their best game, and we still came away with a 10-point win.