Chip Sodemann Quotations

Just making the conference tournament is huge for us. The MIAA has a lot of pride, history and tradition in its programs.

We learned to be more efficient this year. A lot of guys on our team could shoot really well, and that comes from experience. Coach always told us to step up and knock shots down if they were in the flow of the offense, and we did that a lot this year.

He came with a crossover. He had gotten me a couple times in the first half, and I read his move and beat him to the spot and was fortunate enough to get a good piece of the ball.

It was just the release of some emotions. I didn't have much energy left to do anything else. I was pretty excited. It was a pretty big win for us. The win told us a lot about our character.

We've taken on a lot of quality opponents, we've played a lot of good teams and we've beaten a lot of good teams. I still think some teams don't think we're for real yet.

Those early victories help. We were playing with plenty of confidence entering MIAA play.

He's a great player, and it's really hard to stop those kinds of players, especially down low. He uses his body very well, because he can take contact but still get a good shot up, so he gets to the free throw line a lot, and that's where he does a lot of damage.

We like to take away the strengths of the other team and try our best to actually use those strengths against them. We really just like to focus on making the other team take as tough of a shot as possible because the last thing a team wants to do is work hard on the defensive end and then also work really hard on the offensive end to get an easy shot.

We like to make it interesting for our parents and everybody. We like keeping it close.

When a team has a group of guys who can shoot the ball like we do, it's just a matter of time before they start to go in. Throughout the course of a season, you're going to go through some slumps, and you just try to keep those slumps as short as possible. But we knew all along that it was just a matter of relaxing and making shots.