28 Quotes by Travis Williams

We pride ourselves on stopping the ball. They've got a lot of pride in running the ball. They'll run the ball on third-and-7. It doesn't matter how many guys you've got in the box, they're going to try you. Their whole thing is 'We're tougher than you.' It's going to be one of those games we've got to bring our hard hat.

We shot in the 30 percent range the last two games. We are trying to get more people involved in what we are trying to do offensively and tonight it helped.

We just kind of came out and jumped on them pretty fast and just overwhelmed their offensive line and quarterback.

We weren't doing anything different from last year. The defenses that were called were good enough to beat the offenses that were called, but there would be 10 guys doing it right and one guy doing it wrong. It's disappointing, but I've said all along that talent doesn't mean you are good. You have to have 11 guys playing together.

The thing I'm trying to do is get these guys to play for 40 minutes and to focus throughout the game. I'm trying to get them to believe in themselves. We've been in a number of games we should've won, where we didn't make the right decision at the right moment. The regular season is over, the tournament is what matters. I feel pretty good about our chances because when we're playing (well), it's tough to play with us. The way we're playing, we can play with anybody.

I wanted to come someplace where I thought we would win and a place that I thought had a good program.

Decision-making. And we had defensive lapses that gave them shots to get back in it.

They tested him every week. And he was always up for the challenge. It was like that with him from Day One here, and everybody here knew he was going to be a great player just from his confidence and competitiveness.

You can't look ahead because you're playing a tough Miles team. They've beat some teams that we haven't. Any given night, anything can happen. We just have to stay focused and play each game like it was our last.