34 Quotes by Andy Palmer

I think that one thing that will help us is our schedule and our season. We've played good competition, we've played good teams and we've won on the road against good teams. That experience has prepared us for this run. Even though we have some losses, it's helped us.

(Williams) was a handful because of the way we defended him. We just tried to switch everything on Terrill and make sure we had a hand in his face.

We have one game to get to Peoria. You can't ask for a better thing than that. We told them before the game that this is why you play -- for games like this that mean something. Just go out and leave everything on the floor. I thought they did that.

We were able to get a couple of lay-ups when we spread the floor and I thought the 3-point basket by Palm was a huge one. The kids have worked hard for this.

We figured they were going to pound it in there to him. We just kind of felt like if we could get them down, the pressure would build on them and they would do some things that they couldn't do, or just individually take over. That's kind of the way it happened.

We have a lot more confidence in our teammates where they're going to do the right thing. Early on, we didn't trust everybody as well as we should have.

We know they have two outstanding guards, and we know they can get out and guard you. They look to be tough to defend.

We had a tough non-region schedule with three straight local opponents, then having to go on the road. Three-one is a quality record against the teams that we have faced so far, and that gives us some confidence going into region play.

We have been playing very good defense, and we have rebounded well.