Bowling Green State University Athletics
Post Game Quotes From Men's Basketball Win
March 05, 2001 | Men's Basketball
March 5, 2001
Bowling Green, Ohio - Quotes from the press conference following BGSU's 74-68 win over Western Michigan in the first round of the Mid-American Conference tournament:
"Coach Z (Zeigler) kept telling us, we can't get 12 points on one play so we were going to have to keep playing defense and get stops." -Keith McLeod
"We were down 14 points, thats alot of points. We knew their wasn't a play to get 14 points and we knew we had to keep chipping away. We knew we had to stop them from scoring. We all know we can score, we havea pretty good offense going for us and the key is the defense, if we can stop teams from scoring we are going to win and that's what we did in the second half." -Len Matela
"I was hitting the floor because the harder I hit it, the harder we were going to play D out here. We didn't want to go out like this. It was either all or nothing." -McLeod on the team hitting the floor with more authority in the second half
"I think the crowd sensed the urgency and desperation and didn't want us to go out like that. They were giving it all they had so we could get to Cleveland." -Matela
"You got to go nuts for about half of halftime and for the second half of half time, you tell them what they have to do to get back in the game and you appeal to different things. What we appealed to was their pride." -BG coach Dan Dakich on what was said at halftime.
"The effort from our guys was phenomenal." -Dakich
"I'm glad I won, I'm glad my team won, I'm glad for my kids, but I hated to see them lose because of the effort they (Western Michigan) have put in. I have a lot of respect for that." -Dakich
"They (Western Michigan) came at us like Ali-Foreman when Ali went to the Rope-A-Dope, they are throwing all the puches and we are just taking the shots. Fortunately, like Ali, we were able to come back at the end." -Dakich
"The effort from our team was outstanding. " -Western Michigan coach Robert McCullum
"They are a good team, a tough team. It is very difficult to beat them here when they shoot as many free throws as they shot." -McCullum
