Steve Pikiell Quotations

Mitchell's our best player and he struggled to score tonight. We don't have a lot of other guys who can make up for the production he gives.

If we're 9-for-10 from the line instead of 4-for-10, the game doesn't come down to a final jump shot. We spend hours shooting free throws in practice but we can't make them in games.

We played our tails off but just got hammered on the backboards. Our defense was as good as it's been, but we couldn't keep them off the glass.

We played well at times, but our margin for error is so small.

We're a team that needs a lot of things to go right for us to win. We're improving. Unfortunately, our record doesn't indicate that.

When you play the No. 2 team in the country and you give them 25 offensive rebounds, it's going to be a long night.

We're the worst free throw shooting team in the conference. We missed six of eight down the stretch and you can't afford to do that on the road.

Better days are ahead for Stony Brook basketball. We have the 40th-ranked recruiting class.

First of all, it's great to be back here in D.C. and all the good people here at George Washington. As you could tell it was a difficult game.

They make free throws when they need to.

They hit every shot they took. They got into a zone I haven't seen in a long time.

I loved playing there. I bleed the blue. From a coaching standpoint having to play the No. 2 ranked team on the road is a daunting task. ... I'm excited about the opportunity. I tell these guys all the time these are great opportunities for Stony Brook.

I'm trying to make our program like Connecticut's. I want to be athletic, I want to be tough, I want to be an exciting team. We're not there yet, but we'll take a big step next year into becoming that kind of a team in our conference.

I know it's probably a tough game for them (to get up for). They've got some tough ACC games coming up and they have a team that's struggled all year coming into their gym.

I think about that all the time. To make the tournament, you don't need a great season, you need a great weekend. We're going to go to the conference tournament, forget about the season, and we'll try make something happy out of a season that hasn't been that happy.

His focus wasn't on what is important. Forget about the NBA, he needs to get his degree.

Their big guy was blocking shots and he did a nice job of hanging around and making us change our shots a bit.