26 Quotes by Dave Loos

I think we just need to go and play as hard as we can, as smart as we can and see what washes out after the weekend. I don't think there is a lot of sense in worrying about 'what if' this, or 'what if' that. I think we just need to go out there and play the best we can (today) and play the best we can Saturday and see where that leads us.

I thought our defense was good tonight. I was really happy with that.

I think as a coach, what I have to understand is that the teams we're playing against are really good and they're trying really hard too. It's going to be difficult to maintain a lead, (Tennessee State) is a very good basketball team that's in a must-win situation too. These last games are all going to be very difficult. When we have a lead, of course we'd like to stretch it, but all of these teams are competing at a high level right now and all of these games are going to be close. We're just happy to hold on and win whenever we can.

I think he (Hampton) has to work his way through it in his own mind. He's going to continue to keep shooting and that's what will help this team, and that's what we want him to do. Hopefully he'll get off to a good start here soon and he'll be shooting better.

That was kind of our focus (Saturday night), to find a way to get a win on the road. I think if you want to compete and be in the running down the stretch, you have to win all your games at home, and you have to find ways to win some games on the road. We hadn't won on the road, so that was a big win.

We owe our seniors a great deal of gratitude. They have done a great job for us and I hope that people turn out to acknowledge the careers they have had.

We just weren't able to win enough games on the road to get to the 20-win mark to move ourselves up in the (OVC) standings where we hoped to be. On the other hand we did some very positive things, and I think our young people at times played in a manner that is really encouraging as it relates to the future.

A stat that is really pleasing to me is 23 assists. That means that we are really passing the basketball and finding the open man.

Andy really did a terrific job of bringing the team along and bringing them together. I'm proud of the job he did.