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Colorado Head Coach Tad Boyle

General
"We didn't play our best; we had stretches where we played really good offensively, and some stretches that were good defensively. The only time we had both of them, was a little bit there during the comeback time over the last four minutes of the game when it counted. We were fortunate to win that game. Our defense and our rebounding was not good enough and we got annihilated on the boards and they had 14 offensive (rebounds) and nine at halftime which is too much. We had some great individual performances. I thought Andre [Roberson] was terrific again; he made (OSU Center Joe Burton) work for his 15 points. Andre had some big time steals at the end. Spencer Dinwiddie was the player of the game. You look at his line, it was pretty special, he made plays for us down the stretch. A couple key guys really played well for us, which we needed to have happen."

On The Mental Toughness Of Team
"This team has something about it, and it's not like we have had it forever, but the last couple of games we have shown it on the road. It gets down to crunch time and we just have a toughness and a resolve about us. And you can sense it in the huddles, as a coach the huddles are big for me, because you can sense where your team is emotionally. It wasn't like that throughout the whole game, but it was like that when it counted. We have to get it like that for 40 minutes. There was one timeout in the second half when he had a play called and Spencer, who I just bragged about, looked over at the bench and didn't know what the play was. We came out of a timeout to run a zone play and Xavier Johnson didn't know what zone play we were running. So, there is still some maturing that we have to do for a 40 minute game. But, that didn't happen down the stretch, and they executed and did what they had to do both offensively, and defensively, and I thought that Sabatino [Chen] didn't play his best game but he gave great energy, got the ball to the rim off that zone play and helped us get back in it. Again, there were some great performances individually."

On Maturation Process
"That is where growth and maturity comes in. And again, there is no substitute for experience, even though these guys played a lot last year, their roles were different. Andre's role was not to lead this team last year, it was to go out and get rebounds and make open jump shots. Carlon [Brown], Austin [Dufault], and Nate [Tomlinson], the leadership kind of fell on their shoulders last year. Spencer was a freshman, started every game and played a lot of minutes, but he wasn't asked to do the things we are asking him to do this year in terms of leading the team, and getting them into the offense and getting guys to where they are supposed to be on the floor, that was what Nate did last year. We all know about freshmen and that ups and downs they are going to experience but sometimes your returning guys that you count on, they have to grow into their roles as well, and I think you are seeing that before our eyes and they are doing a good job of that here recently."

On Arizona Next
"They (Arizona) will be a little fired up, and we are going to be fired up, and I know our fans are going to be fired up. It's going to be Valentine's Day, but there won't be a whole lot of love in that building."

Colorado Players

Freshman, Forward, Josh Scott
General
"This was a great win to get on the road, I'm pretty happy about it."

On OSU's Defense
"I think when Spencer got in foul trouble, he is a pretty big part of what we do, so when he got in foul trouble it hurt us a little bit but we were able to rally in the second half."

On OSU's Joe Burton
"He's got 'old man' game, very good. Those hook-shots are pretty ridiculous, there is no way you can get to them. You know when Dre' [Roberson] is saying he can't get to them, that it is a pretty good shot. So, respect to him, he's a good player."

On What He Has Learned
"No doubt I've been struggling and I've kind of gotten down on myself a little bit about it but I've just been trying to play and realize that this is my freshman year and I'm out here to learn and just play hard. Whatever happens you are trying to help your team win, and I've learned that whatever happens, happens, and you can't get too down on yourself."

On Mental Toughness
"I think, even going back to Utah, no matter how much were down by we can always come back and win a game. I think we have a resolve about us, that we don't want to lose, I think we are just set on the fact that we want to win and we just need that for a full 40 minutes."

On Arizona Next
"We're going to be ready for them for sure."

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