Paul Booth Quotations

When you look at the statistics and we're 11-for-23 from the free-throw line and in the second half we shoot 26 percent, we certainly don't deserve to win.

I don't think we played fantastic. Our transition defense was suspect. We made some bad decisions early in the second half, but then we picked it up. We questioned ourselves, but we have the answers now.

We need to start playing with a little bit more consistency and get the execution that we need to get back to where we were. We're a different team than we were two weeks ago and we need to find out what we need to do to get back to the winning ways.

Obviously we're excited about the chance to participate in the NCAA tournament. More so, we're lucky to be hosting an NCAA game at home and to have that advantage.

They get their points in bunches and they get a lot of them off turnovers. Our kids have worked hard for this game.

It seems like yesterday that he was starting his first game as a freshman. If memory serves me correct, the first time he played he had 10 points, 10 assists and no turnovers, so I kind of knew after that night we had something special.

The last three or four games Scotty has been absolutely phenomenal. His play has really elevated our team over the past couple of weeks.

We're certainly looking forward to the game. We're just happy to be here and representing Norwich in a topnotch way.

We challenged Rene a couple weeks ago to step up and be the player he was in the middle of the season, and over the course of the last two weeks he's responded. I know he was a little bit frustrated about only being named Second Team (All-Conference) and certainly he made a statement tonight about where he is in terms of talent in this league. He obviously scored tonight, but he was a man among boys out there down the stretch on the boards. And that was the key reason why we were successful.

There's no quit in that team. I didn't expect it to get to 53-52, but I expected them to come back.