25 Quotes by Matt Osborne

We didn't want to be stagnant. We wanted three or four guys besides Zack taking shots.

We have a pretty good defender to put on him. Zack played straight man and held him to 11 points (in the first meeting). I don't think we'll change up.

If we defend better and offensively get everybody else involved and looking to score we'll be all right. And definitely, we need to keep them off the offensive boards.

Getting to the Arena is a huge step for our program.

He does it every night, basically. I think the rest of the team knows that. He's the guy we're going to turn to when the going gets tough and he just does everything for us: Rebounds, plays their big guy, hits the big shots and brings the ball up when we're having trouble. He's just a complete all-around player.

We're probably play a little more up-tempo than last game.

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

I think it's going to be a real battle. Hopefully we shoot the ball a little better. We'll change some things defensively to hopefully slow them down a little.

Last year, our other guys ran into the problem of sitting and watching Crawford and Thomsen. Players used to get out of their way. This year, they know they'll get the ball and they know we need them to score.