Dan Roiger Quotations

We're just not shooting the ball well from the outside. A lot of those shots were uncontested.

Give them credit. We didn't play well in the first half. But they made some open shots and took advantage of their opportunities.

We made some clutch plays late. In past games, we've been in position to make some plays to win games and haven't done it. Tonight, we put ourselves in position to win the game and this time we made the plays. It was fun to watch.

Jess was a zone buster tonight. We told her before the game to just keep shooting the ball and it was a good confidence boost for her to knock down those shots.

Our last three games, we've played pretty well. We've struggled at times and we didn't play great tonight. But we got a win and that was huge.

We played extremely tentative. We played not to lose instead of playing to win. We had a number of turnovers. There were times when we had the numbers but didn't attack. That was a great disappointment to me because that's something we've been working on.

We executed our game plan almost to perfection. It was a nice win for us. But most importantly, we played with intensity for a full game. In recent contests, we've had patches where we lost focus and the opposition took advantage of it. Tonight, we didn't have any lapses in intensity.

We played well, and we played with intensity. We took away their strengths and what they like to do. We made them earn their baskets. Offensively, we got shots. We just didn't make enough of them.

We came out and played soft early on. We didn't help each other out on either end of the court in the first half. And when you're facing a tough team like Northwestern, you can't play that way and hope to have a chance to win.

We wanted it slow, and they obviously didn't. They got the tempo going their way. When you fall behind by 15 points, it's hard to walk the ball up the court. We had to get out of our game.

At halftime, we came out and wanted to win the second half and we almost did that. We played much better in the second half. We had a lot more energy and we were able to accomplish some positive things. But in the first half, our youth showed. And that's just part of learning.

It's always nice to win. I feel good for our kids because they've worked so hard even when things were difficult. And now that we have a win, it's nice to see them rewarded.

It wasn't a beautiful win, but it wasn't an ugly win. We're having trouble offensively with our youth, and because of that, we have to play great defense. Today we did.

The second half was incredibly ugly. We had three points in the first 12 minutes. There was a stretch of nine minutes where we didn't score.

In the second half Wartburg came out very aggressive and cut into our lead. But every time they made a run, one of our players had an answer. It was fun.