Kirk Speraw Quotations

Memphis is athletic and good, but if you can keep them from running you can hang around. If you let them drive into the heart of the defense, they will be hard to beat.

That was critical. We didn't have (Peppers) in there and ... we were able to keep the game right there, keep it close and not lose any ground.

We came out in the second half with no life and our defense broke down.

We did some good things, but let it slip away from us towards the end of the first half. We still were only down 12 points. We came out in the second half with no life and our defense broke down.

We had some good moments in the game, but that's not playing the game for the full 40 minutes like we needed to. You give up 16 turnovers to their (season-low) five, and that's just too much of a difference in a grind-it-out, possession-type game like this.

We didn't have a lot of open looks. Marshall was the more active and aggressive team.

We knew he was going to have the ball in his hands. If I was Coach Smith, I would have done the same thing.

A big problem that has been with us all year long, really reared its head today. And that is, the last 15 minutes of the game got away from us.

That's 11 possessions positive for them. In a tough grind-it-out game, you can't do that.

It's always tough to go on the road and win. East Carolina is a very difficult place to play. They have one of the great environments in college basketball.

They've got good balance and a lot of different people. Patton and Miles are their most consistent scorers, but after that you never know who's going to get you.