Dennis Wolff Guy Quotations

We didn't let their other guys get going at all. Overall I thought that we had a comfortable lead the entire game, and that's because of the way our guys played on defense.

It was a tough make, but it was clearly after the horn went off. We did get it up there pretty quickly. I think by the guy running up on him, it didn't allow him to turn and square as soon as he would've liked to.

I think he is playing with as much purpose and conviction as any guy I've had in their senior year. There's been guys that have been more talented, but I don't know if I've had anybody as determined to try to play as well as he's been.

I think Gardner has made the biggest freshman to senior year improvement of any guy we've had. I think he deserves a lot of credit.

I think what we need to have is have a bunch of the other guys step up. We've had different guys on different nights, but we haven't had anyone step up consistently.

This certainly falls into the category of games where we really gutted it out. We made way more plays than they did and it would have been a real shame if we had another guy foul out and lost.

You've got to give the guys who played a lot of credit. We ended up having to scramble and play some of those other guys at strange positions.

I think you can overanalyze these things to where you're going to drive yourself nuts. The last two years we had a ton of guys who had NCAA experience, and we came up short in the first-round games.

I think the defense is playing hard. But still, our margin for error is not that great. There are still defensive breakdowns. In the second half, we don't guard a couple of screens, leave a guy and he hits a 3 at a critical time.

We started three guys who haven't played a minute of Division I basketball in this type of environment, and I thought they showed a lot of poise right from the beginning. I thought we competed on every possession right to the end of the game, which was what we had hoped we would do.