Scott Gernander Quotations

When you come off a championship year, you have a pretty good recruiting year usually. They're a young team, but a smart team.

I envied the way he was. I'm not just saying this, Billy Carlisle was just a great person. He was so respected by other coaches and people in general.

I give our kids credit. We went into the overtime and took charge. We could have been down in the dumps.

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Five minutes to go I thought we still had a chance. And every time they go into (Slack) it was just two points. We just had no answer for him.

After Christmas, we won four in a row. But three of the games we had lost (on the season) were on last-second shots. Plus we had a double-overtime loss and an overtime loss. So it's not like we weren't playing well.

They were hitting, but it was like they were playing horse out there.

They played like they wanted that eighth seed. We had some kids not ready to play.

I'm real disappointed. I could tell we weren't ready to play. I saw it in practice the day before and I saw it before the game.

I learned a long time ago, you gotta take wins and be happy. I knew they'd come back. In fairness to our guys, we got a lot of foul trouble in that first half. Trying to guard Michael White, we did a decent job of holding him to 16 points, but he puts a lot of fouls on people.

I just thought Tafari had a great game.

By the time conference play got here, he really came on. We've ended up going to the national tournament, and he's a big part of that.