Larry Eustachy Game Quotations

We've done that (jumped to early leads), but then teams bear down on us and that's what Marshall did. We're not ready to win a game like that yet and Marshall made the plays down the stretch.

We're obviously not there yet. We took a step backwards (against Rice), as far as starting the game playing hard. It all comes back to me. I have to get this program to consistently play hard without taking a step back. We had it going for four or five games, and then we took a step back.

We lost the game at the beginning. We got outplayed at the start and could never get back in it.

I thought we could have been in this game and could have played with them.

We played our best game in our last game. We played tough.

We've done a lot of being right there at the end of the game and not being able to finish. We made the plays when we had to and we hadn't been doing that.

That was game, set, match right there. That part of the game murdered us. The biggest thing is they got second opportunity after second opportunity, turnovers and points off turnovers.

We have to get our game onto the court and not play into their hands. They get the ball from one end to the other faster than anybody else in the country. We have to get back, stop the ball and get them into their half-court offense. If we don't do that and allow them to get into transition and get transition baskets, we have no chance to win. If we do stop them, that's the key. We have to get the long rebounds which cost us against Houston.

I had a feeling - and I tried to guard against it after the Tulsa game and all the way up to tip-off - that we were kind of satisfied about where we were. I just think it's human nature. We won a game in a way that we hadn't in a while, and I think with young guys, we relaxed.

That's the fastest team I've ever coached against. They might eventually be ranked No. 1. I didn't think the game was won by 17 points; I thought it was closer. I think that if we could have made some free throws that we could have turned the corner.