18 Quotes by Randy Hauswirth

One thing is, I would have liked to see us be a little more patient at times. We never clicked on all cylinders, but you're going to have games like that.

Whatever Jeremiah can give us is great. But I think (playing without Oates in the sectionals) will help us out. The other kids know what they have to do to win, and they're ready to do it.

I think we were a little rusty, and I think it showed. Before that game, we hadn't played in 14 days. That's a long time to go without basketball, but it's good to get a non-conference game in there to get your legs under you again.

We were making silly turnovers and missing bunnies here and there. We finally got it together for a few minutes and made a run at them, but for some reason the wheel fell off a little bit and we got back into making turnovers.

We knew Jeremiah wouldn't be extremely effective, just because he's been hurt. We were hoping he'd make a miraculous recovery overnight, but from what we'd seen in practice he just hadn't progressed enough. So we decided we would try to push the ball up-tempo, and it gave us some easy looks early on. And, actually, we still got looks in the game on shots we normally make, but for some reason we weren't able to knock them down.

We just never really got into a good rhythm. We never hit that groove.

We weren't sure throughout the week if we would have Jeremiah or not. There was a hope that he would be able to make a go of it, but we wanted to be prepared to go without him if we had to.

Every year we go into it like it's two different seasons. First is the regular season, then you start over in the tournament where you basically start from scratch. We feel like we've made one step, and now the opportunity is in front of us to take another step.

I've never coached there and a lot of the kids have never been there. We took the kids (to OU Friday) and watched the games, just to give them a chance to see the place. We don't want them walking in (today) and be in awe of the place, so we tried to mentally prepare them for that.