18 Quotes by Steve Ridder

The seniors wanted a chance to win the conference championship in the last game and cut down the nets in their own place.

Right now we're a good team, but not great. We're not a special team yet. We think we can get there. This game is going to help us in the long run because we found something that we have to work on.

Defense has been our bread and butter this season. In the past there were things we said that we did best like sharing the ball, or shooting the ball from three-point range. But we play great team defense.

Denny had a couple of tough weeks of basketball, but he's hung in there. He's had great practices this week and there was a correlation tonight.

They played 39 minutes and 45 seconds of zone defense and controlled the tempo. We never got into the type of game we like to play. I think tonight was a great example of what can happen when we don't have a constant 3-point shooting threat.

That's a set play where (Exter) comes off a double screen. We had perfect timing and he drilled it (from the corner as he was fouled).

I'm most proud of him knocking down six of seven free throws. He had been struggling on the line. But Michael's our All-American and he showed it tonight.

I liked Ryan's shot selection. He took the ones that were there. And because they know he can shoot, they keyed on him and that gave our other guys more room to operate.

In our conference, every night is a war. Webber does a great job of coming into everybody's gym and taking it to you. I think we took a giant step tonight.