18 Quotes by Steve Ridder

We are providing Jared with some athletic scholarship monies as a small token of our appreciation and to reward him for all the work he has done.

We were a team tonight, in the truest sense of the word, because we have quality people in uniform. We don't have any ego-type players. These guys get out of bed every day trying to figure out ways to help this team.

We talked at halftime about playing the best second-half defense we have played all year. And we just clamped down.

Joseph's minutes tonight were great minutes. He's just a new dimension when he comes into a game. And Pyle showed in the way he finished plays why he's an All-American.

I think we were mentally prepared for this game. After losing the other night at Florida Memorial, we identified some areas that needed work, and we worked them--especially on the defensive end. Looks like it paid off well tonight.

We think we are way better shooters than that. So we've been investing a lot more time on that in practice.

We've had more scoring punch in the past and better athletes. I don't think our guys would disagree with that. We had to put more emphasis on defense. I think we have a chip on our shoulder a little bit. We wanted to become the very best defensive team in our history.

We tried to get more touches for Pyle in the post. He kept playing out on the perimeter in the first half.

We challenged Ben to make his contributions on defense; he was to go at (No.) 52 (Burr). Ben was a big part of that. Making that adjustment was probably the key to the game.