Chris Lowery
Chris Lowery
Chris Loweryis an American college basketball coach currently serving as an assistant coach at Kansas State University under head coach Bruce Weber. He was previously head coach of the Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball team. He started in the spring of 2004 and was fired on March 2, 2012...
best
He's the best one we've played. It isn't even close.
shooting team
I don't know if there is a better shooting team in the country.
board decided draw looked name start
I didn't know if I was going to play him again, but I just decided to draw something on the board to start the half, and I just put his name up there. He looked at me like -- and I said you're playing, aren't you? And he said yeah.
good
In the trenches, we were very, very good today.
conference normally people step
In conference tournaments, people have to step up that normally don't step up. We had this happen.
ncaa terms
It's very influential (in terms of the NCAA tournament).
chance compete guys late season watch
It's a chance for those guys to watch you compete late in the season on TV.
credit huge iowa league lock losses northern saying seven
They're saying Northern Iowa is a lock and they've got seven losses in our league and we have six. That's a huge credit to our kids.
change offensive
They're exceptional on the offensive end, they change defenses a lot, and they're well coached.
league people
It's not scripted. We got beat. Other people got beat. That's what makes this league beautiful.
adversity deal head poor putting turning
Right now we deal with adversity in a very poor way. We deal with adversity by putting our head down and turning on each other.
bids chip guys hear league shoulder stealing tv upsets watch
The guys do have a chip on their shoulder because they do watch TV and they do hear the things that are said about mid-majors and about our league stealing bids away from other people. That upsets us.
bigger excuses
You can't have excuses about (how) they're bigger than us. You've just got to play hard.
both good prepare seen somebody trying
You can use it as a good thing because it's somebody we've never seen before. Or you can look at it and say, 'Hey, we're trying to concentrate on the conference.' We've got to prepare for somebody we don't know anything about. You can use it both ways.