56 Quotes by Scott Drew

We're very excited with the progress we've made in a short period of time. Our goal is to be a competitive program as soon as we can, rather than waiting.

Even if you're in an empty gym, it's hard to make the 13 shots he did.

Curtis came in with a Big 12 body. It's tough for people to overpower him. He's very good offensively, but we're really proud of the way he's progressed defensively.

There's only so much you can accomplish in practice. We accomplished all that. And we made it through as a team, and still like each other.

Normally you're looking at a five-year process to revitalize a program. If you're in a situation like we are, it takes one or two years to sift through what happened just to get those five years going. Next year begins our actual rebuilding process.

They've earned their minutes. At the same time, we know it's tough on them and hard playing this type of schedule without a chance to warm up to it.

There will be a ton of NBA scouts going through Valparaiso this season.

They really pressured the perimeter and with pressuring the perimeter, it made it tough for us to get people open, so it created more one-on-one play. We've got to do a better job of finishing then and handling that kind of pressure.

At least this game, we were in it. They had the cushion in the second half, but it wasn't a 30-point game. I was pleased with how we competed for 40 minutes.