Rob Jeter Quotations

(Missouri State is) too good of a basketball team to have the turnovers we had. Missouri State is big, they're good, and we just need to take care of our opportunities. We let too many of them slip away.

Obviously, it was not one of our best games. But it was a conference opponent, a conference win.

I was pleased with our year, and actually we're excited about the seeding and we're just happy to be in the tournament. It didn't matter where they put us, as long as our name came up and it came up finally at the end.

I didn't care if we had to wait all night.

Because of the level we're at, we can win the regular season but we're not guaranteed into the NCAA tournament. At this level, you have to win your own tournament.

I thought we couldn't score 87 points with the swing.

I think we're playing some of our best basketball. We need to do that to advance in the tournament.

Our style is aggressive but we try not to send teams to the free throw line.

I thought it was Milwaukee fans making all of that noise. That's great that they were cheering for us. I am sure they won't be cheering for us (today).

I wasn't looking for a job, and they came after hard, and quick and aggressive. It was flattering, but I'm staying here in Milwaukee.

We have our hands full. It makes it tougher, no doubt about it. It's going to be a home atmosphere for Florida. We're going to be in a hostile environment. We have to do our best to keep the fans as quiet as possible.

We were unable to figure out how to get into the zone and get some easy baskets and it cost us the game.

We couldn't match their size. We tried, but we just couldn't.

We played the way we've been doing it all year, and we just met an opponent that was bigger than us. We couldn't match their size. We tried, but we just couldn't do it.

We wanted to make them work. We just tried to keep throwing bodies at them, keep the pressure on and hope we had enough. And we had enough.

We have to make sure we keep them under control in transition, but we're still going to apply pressure.

We're too good a basketball team to have turnovers like that. Missouri State is big and they are good. We needed to take better care of the ball against an opponent like that. To turn it over that many times is not going to get it done.

To have to accept a new coach, a new style, with their last season, I knew it was scary.

You have a group of freshman, you can just tell them what to do. With seniors who have been around the block, of course they are going to see how far they can go. But with this team, it's all in fun.

We just try to not allow anyone to get anything easy. We want to make them work. We just wanted to take away their easy looks and disrupt their timing.

At this point in the season, you want to make sure you're competing and that you're fighting for everything and that you're not allowing anything easy. We're making teams work.

At this point in the season, everybody has experience. You can't make it to the tournament without growing up.

Do we have a chance? Yes. Do we think it's going to be easy? Absolutely not. It's going to take a special effort.

I've always respected them. Coach Sampson does a great job. They're very athletic, they can really score, they put a lot of pressure on you.

That's how I met my wife at a party. She liked to feel my moves, I guess.

They missed a few and we went on that little spurt. That was the difference in the game.

They're big. They have great shooters. That's a tough team.

It's a responsibility to help others. To be a positive example. I want to be a role model for others, to help others like me get a chance.

It's a 40-minute game. It's too bad we can't play 20-minute games because it would have been a different story. We just didn't do things correctly enough the second 20 minutes.

It was flattering, but it couldn't have worked out any better the fact that we decided that I'm still a Panther. I've never considered any position I've had as a stepping stone. You put your head down, go to work and do things the right way and things happen. My conversation with Iowa State is something that happened.

It was the first time all year we had to play with him out of the lineup and for us it was an adjustment and a learning experience.

For 40 minutes it was a battle. They didn't allow us to move freely at all. But the extra pass really was the difference for us because they really smothered us.

It's unfortunate it had to happen in such a great place. This is a special place.

I've got seven (seniors) who don't want to take the uniform off anytime soon.

I'm proud of these young men. They battled and fought. There were a lot of expectations from the beginning. The way they fought was special. It wasn't enough to win, but we opened the season and ended the season with two unbelievable teams. I'm proud of these guys.

I like Milwaukee. I don't want to say Wisconsin-Milwaukee. We're Milwaukee.

I'm just waiting to hear back from them. It's something that it looks like they want to move fairly quickly.

I never once thought about not having an opportunity. I figured if I worked hard, surrounded myself with good people, it would work out.

He's such a dangerous scorer because he shoots it in a variety of ways. Our guys have done a good job of making guys uncomfortable shooting.

He can finish around the basket. His strength is obviously a big part of why he's successful. . . . He's become pretty versatile.