Matt Lojeski Quotations

We're pretty short on players, so I think that'll be a key, getting some rest. We get a little rest, a lot of time to prepare, get our legs back a little bit. We'll be fine.

It comes down to free throws and execution.

You have to expect to play 40 minutes. It's something we're used to, it's not that bad. With the timeouts it's not bad conditioning-wise.

We just couldn't get that bucket and we couldn't get that one stop we needed to get over the hump.

We get a little rest, get a lot of time to prepare, get our legs back a little bit.

We played a little out of control the last time. As long as we stay in control and take good shots, we should be OK.

We came out and it was a little messy, sloppy, in the beginning. Then all of a sudden we started hitting shots. We were hitting shot after shot and it felt good because on the road we were shooting pretty bad.

We knew it would have been a big setback to lose as far as the NIT and the RPI and all that stuff. But we won both games, so that's all that matters.

We're still confident. It's a tournament, so anything can happen.

When you lose on the road, it sets a tone and everybody feels down. Now that we got the win, we can loosen up and just relax and play our game.

You can tell it's a more serious atmosphere this week. I know I've had a couple of bad games recently and we lost. So I'm staying after every day, working on my shot.

We didn't make our run early enough. And when we did make our run, we just didn't have enough left and we ran out of time.

I didn't think we played that bad. We worked our butts off to get back in the game. We just couldn't fight all the way back.

It just wasn't our night. But as bad as we shot it, we still had a chance at the end. I think that shows what kind of team we are. We're not giving up.

After seeing the talent we had this year and how sometimes your fate isn't even in your hands ... it's just a shame to see that our season came to an end the way it did. But we're not ashamed of it. We know we're a good team. It would be fun to be playing right now, obviously, but now it's just looking on to next year.

You could say we got lucky, but maybe things are starting to go our way a little bit. We're still not playing the way we're supposed to be playing on the road, but we got two wins, so we're satisfied.

We mostly focus on ourselves, but we definitely watch the scores to see what the other teams are doing and to see where we stand. We only have two losses, so we feel like we're right in it.

We want to focus game by game and definitely go as far as we can. Hopefully, we'll be playing the postseason somewhere, either in March Madness or the NIT. We're just going to grind every game out and see how far it can take us.