Mark Schmidt Home Quotations

(Robert Morris) and St. Francis have the toughest travel. There are times we are gone for five days at a time. We just got back from a two-game trip and were home for 24 hours and had to leave again. That gets tiring. But we have to learn to deal with that because that is the situation we are in being in the Northeast Conference.

Winning these past two games at home have given us so much confidence. We have really played well, and that will help us as we play three of our last four games on the road.

We have to stay focused on Monmouth. We have to protect our home court. That is so important in this league.

We can't worry about this being our best home record or best conference record, or any of that. I am pleased we are 5-0 and not 0-5, but we just have to worry about the next game because we have 13 more games to play. Five wins doesn't get you into the (NCAA) Tournament. We can't get complacent.

This next game is the most important for us for a number of reasons. We have lost three in a row. This is an important home game, and we are only three games out of first place.

It's really important. It's for fourth place. You always want to try to get into the upper echelon of the league. And it's for a home game.

The home court isn't going to win it for us. We'll have to play well.

We have to execute better on the road if we are going to win. You can get away without execution at home sometimes, but that can't happen on the road.