Steve Ball Quotations

We're happy with the progress we made, but we're not satisfied with it. The fact that they've offered this as a full-time position and with the new facility, the campus has really shown a commitment to moving to the next step. I want to continue to progress.

We made a nice strong push in the second half. We really exploded.

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Our goal is to finish as high as we can in the second half of league. We've seen everyone play and now we know what we need to do.

We dug ourselves too big of a hole early on.

We have stretches in every game where we don't score. We have a lack of focus. We make some things difficult that don't need to be. Every day we talk about it. I've been a little lax on them in practice. We need to compete a little more in practice.

Toward the end of the season the camaraderie that our guys had this year was great. I was very pleased and it was very satisfying for me.

We had some difficulty matching up with them in transition in the second half, but our offense was balanced, and we've shown we can play with anyone.

A lot of the reason we give up some runs that hurt us is that we have a team full of guys that haven't played together before this year, and that leads to a lack of focus sometimes.

They're just quality guys, class guys that have the skill and character that we're looking for in our players.

At halftime we talked about rebounding and taking care of the ball. Whoever has the fewer turnovers will win the game.

It re-establishes the momentum for the second half.

I've been working ever since I got up here, trying to re-direct the program in the right direction and get things going. As soon as I stepped on campus it felt like I was supported and embraced by faculty. Everybody across campus has been really supportive.

They have size and athleticism. They're solid and fundamentally sound. The pace of the game, they're going to cause turnovers. They're very quick.

I'm never surprised when our team makes a big run from behind because we are fortunate enough to have guys who have a lot of character and never let up. It's very energy-consuming to have to make a comeback like that.