Colorado, Arizona Quotes
November 24, 2009 | Men's Basketball
Associate Head Coach Steve McClain
On the game
"When it looked like we were out of it, we found a way to get to overtime, we found a way. We got up three, and then we couldn't make just that one play to get a stop. You always come back to the mistakes on the offensive end, but the mistakes that kill you are on the defensive end. I guarantee you most people thought that when we were down eight at the end of regulation that the game was over. We had some big steals and some big shots and we're right there. I don't know, I told the coaches that I don't know what to say to them because we took charges, we did some things you have to do to win that game, and yet it doesn't guarantee it. You have to just keep fighting."
On Colorado's performance
"Cory (Higgins) made some big plays, he hit some big free throws when he had never stood there and had to do that. You got to have some guts and he had them. Matt Bouldin did that and I thought Nic Wise, when the game was there, he wanted the ball in his hands. Again, we'll get to that. I got to keep my guys believing that going into tomorrow. Like we talked about coming in here, it was going to be two hard games. We didn't come here to play at nine o'clock tomorrow morning (Hawaiian time), but it will be a better opportunity. I thought our bench play was good tonight and guys just got to step up. We got to come back ready to go tomorrow."
On Arizona's hot shooting
"Last night (Jamelle) Horne goes 1-of-5 from three, and he shot an air ball, then he went 5-of-5. Yet the kids kept believing. I thought we kept ourselves in the game at that point. You think when they're hitting shots that at some point they aren't going to hit all of them. Right there at the end Nic Wise missed a three at the end of regulation and we got the rebound. I thought Austin Dufault made a lot of big plays in there today. I thought Shane Harris-Tunks off the bench really stepped up and made some big plays."
