Greg McDermott Quotations

(Miller's) had some very good games against us in the past. The key to our success against them is when he doesn't have a good game. But that's easier said than done.

Obviously you'd like to be in a position where you control your own destiny, but you can't.

It is a somewhat surprising, especially the home losses, because we've done such a good job the last three years of protecting our home court.

Our two games with them were decided by really nothing.

We were able to establish the inside game early, which I thought was so important. To have Coleman come out and do what he did in the first half just set the tone.

We had lost that edge. But we got it back in practice, and it was there (Friday).

We have to make sure we get a crack at the basket every possession.

Virtually every team in the country goes through it. At some point during the season, the ball doesn't bounce your way and the shots don't fall. We just happened to go through it at the end of the season.

Both teams will try to get the ball inside. The team that does the best job of that is going to have a huge advantage.

We weren't very good tonight. That's a fact. But I'm not sure that even if we were good tonight it would have been good enough to beat Bradley the way they played tonight.

Ben made Blake work for every shot. Ben and Blake know each other inside-out.

There's no chance we'll overlook Drake. They handled us soundly in Des Moines, and had a great chance to win the game here. We got the benefit of a call at the end of the game and made a free throw. Otherwise, that was going to overtime.

That's what we really want people to do, to make a difference in people close to you.

A lot of crazy things happened. When we watch tape, (Lowery) will wonder how the heck they lost the game. And I'm going to wonder how the heck we won.

There were 8,442 people here, and Brooks might have been the only one who wouldn't have grabbed that ball.

There were three games where we had the basketball for the last possession. We're three shots away from being 25?5 and probably ranked 15th in the country.

At least from our end, there is a great deal of respect for who they are and how they do things.

For him to step up and have the game he had shows what he's made of, and why he's our starting point guard.

It should be an entertaining weekend. Hopefully, we're around for the end of it.

Any time you go on the road in this league and win, it's huge.

In a lot of ways it validated our program.

I like the way we flew around defensively.

If the (NCAA) selection committee will judge us on the body of our work, I don't think there's any question we have a place there.

I'll take that shot with Ben Jacobson any time. I'm pretty confident that the other nine (Valley) coaches, in a one-point game, don't want the ball in his hands because they know what he's capable of.

His body looks better; he's handling the ball better. And Ben's never lacked confidence.

He's too good a player to do the same thing. We just tried to help in different ways.

I'd say there's six teams that could win it, and the only reason I say that is it's difficult to win four games in four days for the lower four teams. But any of the other six, they could catch lightning in a bottle for three days and roll through that tournament.

The guys that can take it to the basket on the dribble and also shoot the 3 and have size and athletic ability, they're at Georgetown, not Northern Iowa. We built this team on our ability to shoot the ball. When we're not shooting it, we don't have a lot of other places to turn.