Nov. 21, 2006
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New Mexico Head Coach Ritchie McKay Quotes
“I was really, really pleased with our guts tonight. We had a little bit of a motive to make sure we kept improving even during the week off. I think that was manifested on the floor tonight. We had a great team effort.
Again, our bench came up and played solid. We weren’t making our outside shots early, but we wanted to stay the aggressor.
Defensively, we were tremendous tonight. The way our guys executed our defense – for the fourth game of the season – that was a great job.”
(On facing adversity during the game)
“Teams are going to make runs on us because we’re playing good teams, so we’re not going to beat everyone by (24 points). I think we’ve got to continue to value each possession and tonight that’s what we did. When we got down we didn’t try to hit a four-point shot. We got to the line a little bit, we kept driving it and we kept being the aggressor.”
Kansas State Head Coach Bob Huggins Quotes
(On the game)
You can’t shoot 28% and not rebound, not guard and win. It’s pretty simple. We could shoot it that bad and win if we rebound, we didn’t rebound. If you shoot it bad you’ve got create opportunities, in other ways we didn’t do that.
(On the defense)
It wasn’t very good. We knew they were going to transition and we knew that Blake (Young) was going to penetrate. We talked for three days that if he penetrates the two-guard gets back. He penetrated and the two-guard didn’t get back. We just didn’t do a whole lot of things right.