Don Davidson Quotations

We knocked down our free throws the fourth quarter and still took it to the basket. We weren't tentative, and that's really a good step for a young team. We know that almost all our scoring has to come from guys who haven't played much. Our seniors are role players, they don't score much.

We're 0-0. I think these last several games have prepared us well for the regional.

Bureau Valley played hard, and so did we. We just turned it over too many times at the end.

Our turnovers were a real problem in the first half. We just shot so poorly. If you shoot a little bit better and don't turn it over quite so much, to me that was the whole game. We just didn't shoot the ball tonight.

Part of our game is driving to the basket and I didn't think they were calling anything on drives, anything on either team. Nobody going to the basket ever got fouled.

We needed more poise offensively. We weren't determined enough to just hang on. If we have the ball, they can't score. It seemed like we lost our poise and would throw up about anything to try to win it all of a sudden.

We had some nice looks, but not a lot of them. We had trouble moving the ball, and we forced some shots also.

We love the challenge. I've always been that way. It's a nice barometer for us. They may shut us out. Nobody in the gym will think we can win and that's the most fun to play a game, when no one thinks you can win.

Early on we were taking too many missed 3-pointers. We just came out in the second half and were better at moving the ball around and finding our shot.

That's kind of been our bug-a-boo all year. We have games where we just don't shoot it well, and this was an unfortunate time to not shoot it well.

At halftime, we had to do something to put the clamps on them, and we did a much better job after that. Both teams came out really ready to play.

I told our players that this is what we can aspire to be like in a year or two. I was proud of the way Joe Redmond ran the offense tonight against a quality team.

That really hurt them a lot in the fourth quarter. We were able to execute better against their zone and we were more patient.

It seemed like they blocked about 15 shots. We count on (Wesley) Harper and (Jonathan) Boyd to get to the basket on people, and they just couldn't get to the basket tonight.

Oh my goodness, (Harper) was huge tonight. He's real strong, and when he gets on the board, he really helps us get the break going.

Against a No. 1 seed, you've got to get off to a good start, and we did that. But (Hampshire) kind of got with their game and slowed it down on us. We shot poorly and couldn't rebound against their size.

Their second team might be able to win this tournament.

(Huizinga) was a load tonight. He just carried them in the first half.

He really does. He goes to the basket really well. I thought we closed out the game really well. We played not to lose, we played to win.