Dave Odom
Dave Odom
George David "Dave" Odomis a retired American men's college basketball coach, who most recently coached at the University of South Carolina. He had previously held the same position at East Carolina University and Wake Forest University, and was an assistant coach at the University of Virginia...
believed carolina coach demanding deserve fans good mixed national powers program schedule
Every coach makes a schedule that they think is right for their team. I've always believed that the fans deserve a good schedule, and I think to be the kind of program that Carolina fans want, we've got to play a demanding schedule with some national powers mixed in.
affect bigger lesson positive
The bigger lesson is you affect the things that are still possible. And you do it in a positive way.
ball defense growing improved scoring shooting vocal
Not only is (Day) shooting the ball well and scoring well, his defense has improved and he is more vocal and more confident. I think he is not only growing as a player, he is growing as a person.
death door open smaller
What that really did was open the door for us to go to the smaller lineup, which was death for (S.C. State).
basketball beat certainly crowd fine front good highly led student supportive team tonight
Tonight it was particularly good that we beat a really, really fine basketball team... and we did it in front of a highly supportive crowd led by our student body. I mean, they were terrific. I think our team certainly responded to that.
coaches league players quickly rather southeast strong surprise
There is no league that can refurbish its rosters as quickly as this league, and I think the coaches have done that once again. The Southeast is as talent-laden as there is in the country. Coaches can go out and get (good) players rather quickly so it doesn't surprise me that our league is strong this year.
bad shoot
We didn't play bad the first half. We just did not shoot well. When you don't shoot well, you don't look good.
best obviously playing teams
We are obviously playing one of the best teams in the country.
guys seeing
I've been seeing it coming. In the back of my mind, we're doing the right thing by getting the big guys ready.
school
This is a big thing for our team, school and our state.
ball shot sparks
Sparks ... shot the ball from the Rupp Museum.
doubt far guarded museum shot sparks
Sparks shot that one from the museum some place. Even if we were man-to-man, I doubt we would have guarded him that far out.
ball came further morris season shoot struggles time
Randolph Morris has to be more and more comfortable every time he plays. The further into the season he gets, I think he'll be better and better. The other thing is that I think a lot of Kentucky's struggles came because they did not shoot the ball the way they were capable.
ask games playing special team
I don't know that we could ask our team to play any better than they did these two games here. We were playing well at the right time. ... This was a special team.