42 Quotes by Royce Chadwick

We sure paid our dues this year. It seemed like every time we thought that we got it, we had to back up, regroup, reshuffle and refocus. Last year we were able to gel in late February, but this team never really did. This was one of the hardest years I've ever been through. But, I'm most proud of their fight, vigor and tenacity.

I think it's always great to win, especially when you're confidence is in the balance. We've played a tough, grueling schedule. Texas A&M Corpus Christi was ranked 53 in the RPI (ratings percentage index). They may not be a household name, but they're a good team. We've played some good folks and hopefully we'll benefit. We just had more enthusiasm tonight, and we really fought hard. And it's nice when the bench comes in and produces.

Our psyche has always been up and down. We've got to get our confidence back up. We'll have to quickly rebound and get ready to play. With the travel, we'll have time to talk about it. If we get there on the time and everything goes smooth, we'll be all right. We'll have the opportunity to get ourselves ready to play. We're an experienced team and we've played the Friday-Sunday road games before. We know how to do it. We just have to get ready.

Our players are very excited to play on TV so all their families can watch. We're down to late February and every game is of the utmost importance. It's nice to be home, and we have a lot of positive things in our favor. We're looking forward to a big crowd.

We played real well to start. We came out and stood toe-to-toe with them and slugged it out. They hit some threes and shot a blistering percentage early. We had some inopportune turnovers and put them on the free throw line too many times.

We played our best basketball of the season in the first half. We were very aggressive and shot the ball very well.

We get to go into the tournament on a high note. We had to get a 'W' today to get our focus right going into the tournament.

We play defense, but we don't specifically play to defend the 26-foot 3-pointer, and they hit some of those.

We did the things we needed to win. We just didn't do enough of them.