Randy Dunton Quotations

They're excited to play together. That's one thing I'm excited to see. We have a group of kids who are preparing very, very hard for the season because they believe they can compete effectively.

You're in that time of the year when their bodies are absolutely starting to wilt, and you're on the road and you're struggling. It's easy to take a step back mentally. This is where we need to take steps forward mentally. We weren't able to do that.

The thing I appreciated about that lineup tonight is that, hey, we've got five guys out there that are really trying to operate with a basketball IQ and really play sound basketball on both ends.

We just went through a tough stretch and played five of those games on the road and dropped two at home that we could have won. We could get six or seven wins on this side of the bracket if the kids really buck up and play. ? This team could still be very dangerous.

He was not responsible to the structure of our academic program. I think this should take care of it. He dug himself a hole in the first semester, and I expect a sense of urgency we haven't seen.

He's a special player. He plays with a great pace. He's got an inside-out game and he can shoot it with range. He's a load.

That's an incredible stat for me to look at. That means Larry Blair is now a force inside the arc. He had 34 points inside the arc. That's a tremendous job of him driving. When you get to the place where you're mature enough physically and confident enough to penetrate that basketball, you can literally put a lot of pressure on everybody's defense.

It was a very poor performance in that first half. We've got nobody to blame but ourselves for that. ? I was as disappointed with that first half of play as I've been with any half since I've been coaching at Liberty.

They're as good a team as I've seen in my tenure in the Big South.

We're just immature, and we're not where we need to be in terms of competitive greatness. Yet, there's times when there's flashes of very solid basketball. That's where we've been. I'm not happy with it, and we're very disappointed that two or three players couldn't step their game up and make the plays they needed to make when the game was in the balance.