Mike LaPlante Quotations

When we got down by double-digits, I thought we started to force it offensively. The guys are meaning well, but I thought they became impatient and tried to get it all back at one time. We got a little impatient with our shot selection.

Morehead State was only averaging about maybe 60 or 63 points a game. Once we scored 70, you knew they were going to have a hard time beating us. We had 70 points with probably ten minutes to go in the game.

He's going to be great. He's one of those guys that you can put him in any environment and he's going to adapt and excel.

When they're playing with a double-digit lead, they're a totally different team because they can really be patient with the shots they're gonna take. You get down ten or more to those guys it just changes the whole game.

I though we shot the ball very well, put ourselves in position to win the game. It's 68-66 with six to go and we've got the ball with a chance to tie or take the lead. Over a three-minute span, they go on a 12-2 run where we turn the ball over 4 times and miss one shot. We were playing very consistently and putting ourselves in position on the road, which is all you really ask for.

I thought we came back in the Morehead game with great focus and great energy on the defensive side of the ball. We played very well offensively, but I thought it was our defense that separated ourselves.

That's the way we like to play when everything is right, an aggressive up-and-down style. If they want to run, that's the way we want to play and we will go.

We really needed to come out and win this game tonight. We are trying to secure a home game in the league tournament, and have to take care of business at home to be ale to do that. B.J got hot in the second half and made some big baskets for us to help us pull away.

We knew that we were going to have a chance to get some good looks tonight. B.J. Really got hot tonight and was selective. He scored 26 points on just 16 shots. He was just very solid tonight.

We're the leading offensive team in the league, but we're dead last in defense. Part of that is we make the game a lot of possessions. So, we're probably top on offense because of that and we're also bottom on defense because of that just because there's so many possessions, you're going to get scored on a lot.

This was a really big win for us. We really needed to get back on track at home, and for our guys do it the way they did by fighting from behind says a lot about what this team is capable of accomplishing.

It's not always the team that makes the great plays that's gonna win. It's the team that makes the fewest mistakes.

The difference in the game was turnovers. We had more possessions than they did, and that proved to be the difference. This was a good quality win for our team.