Ron Jones Playing Quotations

We accomplished what we wanted to do. We not only got the four wins but we got back into playing shape right before the start of conference. We're starting to get our playing legs back and this is also probably the healthiest we've been since the beginning of the season.

We can make all the excuses we want but part of it is we don't have many sophomores out there and we've got a lot of freshmen out there playing college basketball for the first time. Sometimes going through something like this gives you a comfort level the next time.

Win or lose, the most important thing for us this week is to be physical. We want to make sure they remember playing us and it wasn't an easy thing to do. There's no sense in giving anybody any confidence against us.

We recognize this is a big game, but what is more important to us right now is just playing well and playing physical. Those two things are more important than the outcome. We're just trying to improve from week to week. That's how you win championships.

We didn't have that five-minute lapse of making mistakes to give the other team the opportunity to win. With the exception of the second half of the South Plains game (a 71-62 loss on March 2), I thought we've been playing hard. We just had those possessions on offense and defense where we hurt ourselves and we didn't do that (on Monday).

I told the team the other day that our playoffs start Monday night 'cause we need to get these games this week. Let's see if we can sustain playing well for 40 minutes.

I'm just disappointed that we're not playing clean basketball. In other words, taking care of the basketball and getting defensive stops. You can live with that if you're getting good shots. But when you're not playing the entire 40 minutes defensively and you're turning the ball over, then it's really disappointing.