Don Meyers Quotations

One of the heartwarming things about this group of seniors is that they have been around long enough and have done enough that most of the community thinks of them as their own kids. They want to come and watch them play. They identify with them and enjoy seeing them play as hard as they do.

Give Moorhead a lot of credit for their effort. They played a great game under these conditions at our place with our crowd being so loud. And give our kids credit for hanging in there.

Our guys did a great job of getting the ball into him, and Aaron did a great job of finishing. Aaron didn't miss hardly anything.

That was an unbelievable college basketball game. You won't see anything better on TV, that's for sure.

Winona did a great job of shooting free throws and getting to the line the entire tournament.

We played hard the whole game, but we really played hard in the second half. We were pretty effective in that second half.

We played hard, passed the ball and rebounded pretty well tonight. Of course, when you miss as many shots as we did tonight, you should be able to get a few rebounds.

We gave up some easy threes in the first half. Like everyone else, we get hurt when we allow penetration inside and the other team is able to kick the ball out. We have to work harder on controlling penetration.

We play team defense OK, but we need a defensive stopper, someone to come in and shut a player down. Luke played really hard today, and did some nice things defensively. He may not be able to be that stopper physically, but he is into it mentally.

We did some nice things to get back into the game.

We just have to play better. We have to play at a pretty high level just to stay with them. We'll have to do better than we've done.

We didn't get much out of our posts today, but it wasn't all their fault. We have to be able to use our post players better.

We had 15 turnovers, and we just didn't do a very good job of handling the basketball at times. Early in the game, Matt tried to do too much. But to those who much have been given, much is expected. And that is the way it is for Matt. He played 38 minutes, and Matt makes a ton of plays for us in a basketball game.

The only thing is that we had 17 turnovers tonight. We have to take better care of the basketball.

When you have seniors who have played a lot for all four years, you go through a lot of ups and downs. Especially when you have some success. I think these seniors have handled the ups and downs and the success pretty well. They have remained humble, and that's important.

We had a great crowd tonight, and everyone paid. There were no passes for anyone tonight because it was a conference event. And if we hit 70,000 for a season, that is pretty remarkable. Everyone here at Northern really appreciates our fans. They are the best.

Our seniors won a lot of games during their careers at Northern. Losing your final game in the region championship one game away from the Elite Eight is a tough place to go out.

They got tired in the second half. Our match-up defense did a good job and our guards were very active in it.

It makes the publisher look bad. How did he get it past editors that are supposed to have caught it? It will cause some serious soul searching.

That steal and basket by Kyle was a very athletic play. It was one of those plays that shows how serious your team is about playing hard. We had several of those plays tonight.

That is how you turn coal into diamonds, under extreme pressure and heat.

It was a hard-fought game. It was a great win for our kids. We didn't play well early, but they dug in. We really played good defense in the second half, and we made a lot of good hustle plays tonight. Every one of them was important for us.

Any time you play Winona, it's a great thing for you because you're going to be tested. They're better than us athletically at every position. You could put all five of Winona's starters on the first-team (all-NSIC) and you couldn't really argue it. They're that good.

I had teams in Tennessee that averaged 34-35 wins a season and (WSU) is comparable. They're really talented. They really have a nice team.

In the games we've lost, our problem has been that our offense creates offense for the other team when we turn the ball over. We need to do a better job of taking care of the ball.

I know how a guitar player likes a guitar to feel and to sound. Having the right tone is everything.

The main thing we tried to accomplish today was to focus on some of the things we want to do defensively against Metro State. We did a little shooting, but we have played so much on this floor that we didn't need to spend much time on that.

The guys who finished the game really did a nice job.