Bud Childers
Bud Childers
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When you go on the road and you're trying to steal the crown away from the champion, you can't bring your C-plus game and today we were a bit off our game. You have to credit Liberty with being physical and doing a good job at protecting its home court. We had an opportunity to get the game in our favor over the final six minutes of the first half and opening six of the second, but we couldn't take advantage.
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We expected a tough challenge today. The difference in the game at Radford was that we out-rebounded them by 14 and we hit eight out of 14 three's. So we figured that with the fact they had a week to practice basically getting ready they were going to do a good job challenging us at the 3-point line and be a little tougher on the boards. That was obviously the difference in the game.
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But Austin Peay came out and put it to us. ... If they played like that the whole game they could play with anybody in the country.
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I thought we had a chance. You hold a team to 36 percent shooting, you rebound with them, you get more free throws ... the difference in the game might be the stretch where we turned the ball over.
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I think it'll be an edge, but once the game gets going, I just think it comes down to playing ball.
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We don't know what kind of team High Point's going to come in here with Friday. I thought they were a good team when we played 'em. We played them the game that kind of started our mid-season skid. We played awful and lost by six at their place.
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The staff joked that we ought to move the game to Northwestern High School because we seem to play better on the road.
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If you wanted a defensive game and that's what you like, that's what you got tonight. I'm not sure that either team is really happy with the way they shot tonight, but I certainly like the way we defended tonight.
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We're thrilled to get some recognition. Last year, my first year here, I felt like we were observers to the Big South Conference. This year we are participants and we've got some things to build on in the future. Maybe start a little tradition here.
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We're disappointed in the loss. But we're encouraged by how hard we battled and look forward to the when the Flames come to the coliseum.
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We'll just keep pushing on because we don't have any other choice.
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I would categorize the season as a success in many ways. We're saying it's only the beginning. Hopefully, we'll return a good bit of our squad and keep moving forward.
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If we just could have gotten some shots to fall in the first half. We started off so well, but we just dug ourselves too big of a hole to get out of.
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I anticipate a hard game. We know what Radford does. Radford knows what we do. The team that rebounds is going to be the team that puts itself in a great position to win. And in tournament play, you've got to have players step up and make shots. If you don't have players make shots, it's hard to win in tournament play.