Brian Giorgis Quotations

We don't have anybody to match up with Humphrey, as far as strength. She's just a tremendous player. This year, she's brought a three-point game with her that's just scary.

Loyola was just the last team to beat us.

She's like a sixth starter. She's gotten to the point where she's playing with confidence.

She has the ability to score from anywhere. She has a great shooting touch and can score from inside, 3-pointers, or just put it on the floor and take it to the basket.

She brings a lot of energy, which is one thing that you like from a kid coming off the bench. She's like a microwave. She makes things happen. She's instant offense, she's instant defense, she's instant rebounding, which is something that you need.

Obviously we started slowly in the second half, it was disappointing, but their defense got after it. They're just a tremendous team. I thought we played a great game today. Obviously Georgia had too many weapons, they had such an inside presence with Humphrey.

I think the big difference in the game - and it was something we lacked last year - is that our bench came through. It didn't seem like it was a day for starters.

I thought we just did a tremendous job in the last 26 seconds. It came down to one play and our defense happened to be a little better than their offense on that play.

I think we had about as good a 15 minutes as you could possibly ever want.

Overall, at least offensively, it was a solid effort. For the most part, I felt confident.

We don't spend a lot of time talking about the streak. We just have a bunch of people who aren't used to losing, and don't want to lose. That's the way they play.

Two years ago, we left on Wednesday to play a Saturday game, but it was out there. Here, they can sleep in their own bed a little longer.

We'll make sure she's in shape for it. We're going to work on ball-handling drills, and we'll get her in the gym shooting as many shots as possible.

We're not that much better than everybody if we don't bring our best game, especially on the road. And we didn't defensively.

We didn't play our best game today but Iona had a lot to do with that. We're looking forward to playing again.

The good thing about this team is, we're a pretty even-keeled team. We never get too high. We never get too low.

Once we got it going in December ? the Idaho win was huge ? we thought we were good.

(The call) was something we were hoping for. They had seen her on tape, and they saw the Georgia game, and they felt she deserved to be one of those invited.

You never know in the tournament. That's why they call it March Madness. Half of it is believing.

They've been knocking off people by big scores. We know we have our hands full; but hopefully with our crowd behind us, we can give them a run like we did last year and maybe pull the upset of the tournament.

They're just excited. I think everyone works hard, but these kids work exceptionally hard.

They're more of a slashing team and I think we helped really well and got into the passing lanes.

It's the way we've done it all year. We've had to persevere. I was so proud of our kids.

The big key was our team defense in the second half. We forced 13 turnovers in the second half.

It was a good win for us. It was two weeks since we played a game, and we came out shooting and defending well. It got us the 10-point lead early.

It's very special and I'm hoping that she's smiling up there. She'd be the type that would be listening.

They just bring so many different weapons at you, offensively. We've got a number of different things that we're going to try; and hopefully, we're going to be successful at one or two of them.

Their Achilles' heel all year has been interior defense because they're pretty small. We got the ball in there early and often.

I'm glad that they were excited. I know a lot of them weren't on the last team and would've loved the experience to travel and go away.

I'm sure it will be an experience that will last their lifetime.

I think our confidence is the result of how we've been playing. We're a much better offensive team this year. We're a much more diversified. But I think the biggest thing is, we're a lot deeper than we were last year. I think we kind of ran out of gas in the second game because we were playing seven people.

I felt we had a good basketball team. To win 23 of our last 25 says a lot about the kids. They're not a team that quits.

This is a good way to finish 2005, and hopefully we can go into January doing some of the things we did. Niagara has dangerous shooters, and we can't look ahead to Canisius. We have to take one game at a time and hopefully we can come out with a pair of wins.