45 Quotes by Ron Jirsa

Mark is really poised for very strong senior season. He was the best player in the gym up front both nights. They had a couple of 6-8 athletic guys on each team.

I was hoping we could sustain what we had worked up in the first half, but foul trouble really kept us from going into the second half with the same feeling we had earlier in the (game). Memphis has an explosive team and I think they were able to run us and we hit the wall about six, seven or eight minutes into the second half. And that made it difficult for us to overcome that run.

That's the way we are looking at the game Wednesday. UAB is a great team, but now we turn our attention to Tulane in the tournament.

That's two in a row. He has to understand what he did and see if he can put it together for three straight. He has to play within the concept. He knows what we need from him.

Tyler is a mobile, skilled forward with great size who is still growing. He had a tremendous senior season as a 17-year old. I believe he can continue to grow with our program and help us continue to move forward.

We need to feed off the fact that we've beaten them. Home or away, we're going to give our best.

We worked hard before the game at shooting and finishing better around the basket.

We called the play, we got the ball to Mark. For whatever reason we didn't get it in the basket, and then we didn't back on defense.

We had a couple of (miscues) but we didn't let it get us down. We fouled the three-point shooter (Willingham) but we didn't let it extinguish our fire. We played well in overtime.