Derrick Coleman Quotations

We blew the game in the first half. We came out soft and sluggish. We fought back in the second half, but it is hard to fight your way back when you get behind by a lot.

We knew they were a tough team, so we knew we had to play tough to beat them. It was a battle. We just tried to match their intensity.

Monmouth is a really good team, and we better be prepared for them. They will come in here hungry because we beat them at their place. We need to play hard against them the entire game. We can't let them win at our home.

Our goal when the season started was to get a home game for the tournament. It's still right in front of us.

Our big thing was to stick together as a team. Whether we're down or up, just stay together. Don't break apart from each other. Don't get frustrated with each other.

That 4-point play kind of just changed the momentum.

We just blew the game, man. We blew the game. We came out soft, sluggish. I have no idea why. We just kind of came out, like ... I really can't explain it.

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

We are refocused and ready to go. We learned what we did wrong from the three losses and we are ready to get back to where we started, with a five-game winning streak at the beginning of conference play. We want to get the best seed we can for the NEC Tournament.

This was a win-at-all-cost game. We wanted to prove we could beat them. I think we made a statement.

This was another learning experience for us. We are not going to blow every team out. There will be close games and we have to learn from them so when we are in close games again, we will know what to do.

We were real frustrated. We knew we could have been right there with the top teams and we couldn't win the close games.

It was about team chemistry. We're so emotional that sometimes we sort of snap at each other.

Our destiny is sort of in our own hands. We need to get back on track. This is really the most important game of our season because we need to get back on track.

It was a tough game and we knew it would be a tough game. Central Connecticut State is one of the staple teams in our conference. You know they are always going to be one of the hardest games of the year. We're just glad we beat them.

It's all or nothing for us. It's a home game and it's a game for seeding. We're going to be real excited. And they beat us at their place by one. That's in the back of our minds as well. There's going to be a lot of emotions coming into play in this game.

It's good to win close games. You learn from close games. I think it's good to learn from them right now rather than to not have close games and then have them at the end of the season.

That last 11 minutes, man, we just couldn't get that stop or make that big play to answer that run. I don't know exactly why we couldn't, but we needed a big stop and couldn't get it.