Ben Howland Minutes Quotations

Josh Shipp's minutes tonight were critical. He was spectacular.

I thought that in the first 10 minutes we came out a little tight. In the last 30 minutes, we were terrific.

I thought our intensity defensively for the entire 40 minutes was really, really incredible. That's the best defense we've played all year.

We had a seven-point lead at the half, but then we came back out and got off to an unbelievable start against an NCAA tournament team. And although we won by 12, the score is not indicative of the fact that we were pretty much in control the last 16, 17 minutes of this game. It was really fun.

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

I've had more injuries with this team than I've ever had in my 25 years of coaching. (Almost) all our minutes are from underclassmen now.