Mike Lonergan Quotations

We're just happy to be alive. I think our guys hung in there. I thought they played really smart.

We've tried to make him our go-to player all year. He's had his moments, but he's been inconsistent in that role.

Obviously, we're more comfortable at home. In our league we want to win every home game. If we can do that, we'll be in the mix.

Chris Holm was a real player in the second half. We're going to have trouble winning if he doesn't play at that level consistently.

I give Albany all the credit in the world. They weren't going to be denied today.

We took nine shots in the second half. If you can't even get shots off then it really doesn't matter what percentage you shoot.

What we wanted to do was slow them down. We wanted to control Heard, and what we really wanted was to force other people to beat us.

I thought our free throws were the huge key to overcoming the late turnovers.

I think they will be one of the top two teams coming into next season. Will Brown deserves a lot of credit. He's proven he can recruit and you can tell his players really believe in what he's doing.

We feel good we're in third place with such a young team. It's good for them to know that the defense they've played all year can allow you to be one of the top teams in America East, even if we don't have the scoring power Vermont has been used to having.

When I thought we turned the corner and would do something right, they would just go down the other end and pound it down our throat.

We had our chances. I'm really proud of our effort and I thought all we needed to do was make a few plays and we just couldn't.

The only thing I'm disappointed with this year is ending the regular season on a four-game losing streak. But it's not like we're getting blown out. We've struggled with free throws and turnovers, and we'll get better. I just hope it happens this weekend.

I've played a lot of games in my life and coached a lot. I never felt so helpless on the sidelines, to watch a team that I thought was playing pretty good defense just continue to give up offensive rebounds.

The story continues. We got off to a bad start, but we stayed in it, finally started playing defense and then we couldn't make a basket. We had three wide-open 3s with 12 minutes left to cut the lead to five and we couldn't make one.

There's a big difference being down 17-3 to Binghamton and being down that to Albany.

It's as frustrating a loss as I think I've ever had, but I don't feel badly. We deserved to lose that game and BU is very deserving to win that game for what they did to us in the second half.

The offense should be a little easier for us at home.

That's one of the things that our team has, we got some smart guys. I thought we could have panicked like we have some games today, and we didn't. That lead kept going down but the free throws really helped.

That last 10 minutes was painful. If I was in the crowd I might have left, too.

I've got to watch the film. I'm still not sure what happened. It just hit me like a ton of bricks throwing the game away.

I knew he'd start right away at point guard. He's a tough kid, and when we need scoring, he scores. And when we need him to make passes, he does that, too.

I'm just glad to be going home. We'd like to try and win two games at home and get some momentum going into the (league) tournament.

Hope we don?t see them again (in the conference tournament).

Chad makes a great diving play to get Martin a dunk and the crowd really gets into the game and you think we have momentum. I'm frustrated, but we didn't deserve to win that game.

I couldn't be happier. We really needed this one and now we've got some home games.

The guy scores 17 points and doesn't hit a field goal.

The guys are really happy right now. I have trouble putting (the losses) behind me but they've done a good job of that.