19 Quotes by Steve Rives

This was a total team effort tonight. We won the battle on the boards (48-32) and I thought we really executed our offense well down the stretch.

We've put ourselves in position to play for the whole thing - to play for a national championship. Boy, it's going to be a tough road. But we have a group of guys who really believe we can do it. I told them that if we win it all, we'd have to go out there and get the biggest rings we can find.

Right now, we're a few overall wins ahead of where we've ever been before. But we have yet to do anything. We've yet to take it on down the road like that Final Four team in '86 did. Only time will tell if we're that good.

It was a much different second half. What happened early, I guess you can blame that on bad coaching. But we dictated tempo and pressured the ball to get us back in it.

Every once in a while as a coach, if you're lucky enough, you get someone to come to you as talented as he is. Not only (is he) an exceptional player, he made everyone around him better. He's certainly one of the best that we've ever had at our college.

So far, it's been an incredible run with a great group of kids.

I am very proud of the tradition we have built here at Delta State, but I think I am most proud of the way we went about it. I tried to run this program with class and fairness and I believe that's one of the things that has allowed us to keep this run going for so long.

He's not a kid who is tied to the block. He can go outside and score, and because he shoots so well out there, we have some high-low stuff that we've run very well.

He always believed in himself. As a coach, you're lucky to get someone as good as he is. He's certainly one of the best players I've ever had.