Randy Dunton Quotations

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.

Life is a do-it-yourself project and we Jack Kevorkian-ed ourselves tonight. It was assisted suicide.

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.

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.

I saw a lot of positives tonight on the floor for us as we fought hard against a seasoned Big South basketball program. We are very young and they are the most experienced team in our league. I give them all the credit tonight as they deserved to win.

Our inability to find somebody who can give us a punch in the lane is a real handicap.

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.

We have got to get some more contributions from the post. We're a doughnut down there and that has to be addressed.

We certainly ran into a buzz-saw. They churned us up.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I doubt there were many believers left. That's reflective of where we were at in our season.

These guys bounced into the gym (Sunday night) ready to practice. That's the way we've been all year long. They practice with energy. They just had to parlay it into a performance (Monday) and try to build themselves some confidence.

The important thing for us is just establishing that we can win. Winning can be a habit. Unfortunately, so can losing.