University of Memphis Athletics
Memphis Postgame Quotes
Mar 05, 2005 | Men's Basketball
March 5, 2005
Memphis Head Coach John Calipari
"This could have been a big momentum builder going into the conference tournament, but we couldn't rebound. We had a little rough-housing and we just couldn't get it done. If we could have gotten just one more rebound in the last five minutes of the game, we would have won."
"They are just a rough team, and if you can't play rough, you aren't going to win the game. It's disappointing, but if you (would have told me) lose this one and win the next four, I'd say let's throw the game away and let's win the next four."
"We made the plays we needed to to keep us in the game, but then they just offensive rebounded the ball. It's amazing to me, but it's one of our achilles heels. They had 24 offensive rebounds and the last one won the game for them."
"I talked to Steve Alford at Iowa who won four games in four days a couple of years ago trying to figure out what we're going to have to do (to win four in four days). That's what we're going to have to do, but we are one of the few teams in the country in any major league where everything is at home now. No one is in the position that we're in so we're going to have to go take advantage."
Cincinnati Head Coach Bob Huggins
"We didn't leave anything in the bag. We played virtually every defense we could play. We ran a bunch of sets we hadn't run in a long time. We did, and I think they did too. Both teams really gutted it out."
"We got a lot of rebounds. When you can't shoot you have to rebound, and we didn't shoot the ball well, so we spent a lot of time rebounding."
"(Coming out in the second half) we just did a better job guarding them. They went almost 10 minutes without scoring, so that tells you we did a pretty good job against a team that runs plays well and sets a lot of staggered screens like they do."
