Mike Dement Quotations

What a display of free throw shooting by them. It's a possession by possession game and we get beat by nine at the free throw line.

We have a young team this year and we're playing a difficult schedule. So I would say that I'm probably drawing from it even now, the things you have to do with a young team and how you have to handle them. That was an experience with that very young Duke team. As seniors, they made that first Final Four and the rest is history from there.

When things weren't flowing, they penetrated and made things happen which you have to do against a zone. We are not a team that drives well so we don't do it that often.

Maybe there's been a little too much ACC for us, as far as where we are right now. We're a little worn out.

He's also the most competitive person I've ever known.

We may have been a little tired. A little bit too much ACC for us right now. We need to see if we can regroup.

I thought Ricky did the best job at halftime. He made a great statement, and that's what you need. Ricky's an upperclassman and when those guys start making statements and demands than we can become a good team.

Outside of these two guys, and they have been very good, we've had a lot of inconsistency throughout the rest of the roster. We've just got to get everybody clicking because there's no room for error for us.

We're all battling to finish strong and finish with the fourth or fifth byes.

We played all man-to-man tonight and they had 11, so it's a bit of a guessing game right now.

We played well offensively for a while and then got tired both offensively and defensively. We worked hard to keep up with J.J., but he had a lot of shots.

We've played two ACC teams back-to-back, and that's probably a little bit too much for us.

We've played a tough schedule with a lot of road games and played well at times. You want your experience to take over. Maybe this will give us a little confidence going into two tough places.

We're the kings of not getting loose balls. We've been trying to get them to be more aggressive. I thought we did a better job of that tonight.

Turnovers were the biggest disappointment. A lot of turnovers that we just haven't done in a lot of games. We've played 14 games. We should be valuing the ball a little better.

You feel like you're with him, you feel like you're challenging the shot and he just keeps hitting them and hitting them. I know we're not the only team he has made feel that way.

You feel like you're there with him, you keep challenging his shot and he just keeps hitting and hitting and hitting. We worked hard to stay with him in our defense, but he hit lots of shots.

Elon is playing great, and they were the better team in the last four minutes.

Each time we play in this type of environment, we play a little better. Hopefully, that will continue with the upcoming game against NC State. We are in a tough stretch right now.

It would be more fun if we were battling for one of the byes or higher seeds. We're fighting for a little pride and an ounce of momentum before the tournament.

As difficult as that will be, in a way it's like a tournament-type week. You've got no time to prepare for the next team, so it gives us a little bit of a simulation before we go into the Southern Conference tournament. At least that's the way we'll try to approach it.

They had a nice mix and a nice chemistry and it all came together for them at a nice time.

Davidson was good tonight. They were efficient and we weren't aggressive defensively. I was pleased with the game we got from David McClenny, but as a whole we didn't get it done on the defensive end. We are a totally different team on the road defensively right now than what we are at home and hopefully we can get it back together.

This is a great atmosphere for college basketball. Their students were great, and our folks who came over were great, too.

All year long we've been talking to our guys that 75 points is enough, 80 points is enough, 67 points is enough. We have to get better defensively.