Donald Copeland Guys Quotations

I think we're pretty much a different team because we have more of an identity now. Guys are becoming more comfortable with their roles and things are beginning to jell for us. If we stick together, I think we're going to be able to do some special things.

We got a lot of shots up, put in a lot of work offensively. We had some real competitive practices, guys really going at each other and pushing each other real hard. Something like that clears things up.

We want to play in the NCAA Tournament so this game was huge. Kelly and I had to make sure the other guys knew we couldn't ever quit. We huddled when we had to let them know. We had to want it more.

Sometimes guys are coming from places where they're not used to anybody saying anything to them. Regardless of how anybody's going to take it, when you feel like something needs to be said, you just say it.

They had a situation on their team, but this was about us. The main thing was we wanted to get better. After the long layoff we wanted to get out and play -- and play well. We shared the ball well, guys spaced the floor well, and we played pretty well off each other.