Dean Foster Quotations

Those shots Caleb hit were big, because I think they gave us a big confidence boost to get us back on track. During the first half, we looked like a bunch of scared puppies at times. I just felt we needed to be more aggressive. Instead of playing passive, they responded to the challenge very well.

Right now, we should all be learning Mandarin. We are going to be so impacted by the growth of China and India.

I used to be of the outline school, but after 30 years I find it's no longer necessary. However, I don't entirely make it up as I go along.

We moved the ball around really well tonight. We really focused on moving the ball toward the goal and we were able to attack the boards and follow up on some of the close ones we missed.

People down there tell me the guy's just done an unbelievable job. Most of the other (North Central Conference) coaches didn't even know their players' names at the start of the year.

They've also got a 5-8 point guard who's a rocket. (Jones) is going to be difficult for us, and then the rest of them can match us in size, which we haven't seen a lot this year.

Even though we had less rest time because we had to play the second game, I still thought we performed with a lot of energy. They've earned some rest, so I guess I won't make them run home from here (Michigan City).

They're similar to us in that they'll make one pass to shoot it, or they'll make 20 passes to shoot it, whatever it takes. They limited bad shots and never gave us a great chance.

We expended so much energy to get ourselves back in the game that we started pressing ourselves a little too much at the end. We forced up a lot of shots at the end, but give them credit. They came at hard defensively and caused us to do some things we're not used to doing today.

We had watched (E.C.) play enough that it seemed like if they scored on the break, they could give up a score back. I thought we matched them and then got some really good shots. Sometimes we made eight or 10 passes, but we were knocking the shots down.