Paul Booth Challenged Quotations

We challenged Rene a couple weeks ago to step up and be the player he was in the middle of the season, and over the course of the last two weeks he's responded. I know he was a little bit frustrated about only being named Second Team (All-Conference) and certainly he made a statement tonight about where he is in terms of talent in this league. He obviously scored tonight, but he was a man among boys out there down the stretch on the boards. And that was the key reason why we were successful.

I thought we answered a lot of serious questions about ourselves tonight. I had some serious doubts about this game. I knew they were a good team. Frankly, we hadn't been challenged early on in the season.