Herb Sendek
Herb Sendek
Herbert Joseph Sendekis an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball coach at Santa Clara...
feeling help knowing tournament whether
We went to D.C. not knowing whether we were in the (NCAA) Tournament or not. We went to the tournament feeling we'd better do something to help ourselves.
mind played
I kind of played Ping Pong in my mind with what to do.
defend difficult
It's so difficult to defend them. They are so talented.
cash couple good knock liked looks nearly others situation
Each situation was different. There were a couple that we really did get some good looks and we just didn't cash them down. There were some that we didn't get nearly the look we would have liked and some others we didn't knock down.
games guys lost takes won
Everyone of those games that we've won we could have lost ... we've just had guys make plays. Our guys are doing what it takes right now.
arizona coach leap plateau program quantum similar stage struck successful trying
Not that I'm trying to put myself on the same plateau as coach Olson, but it struck me that he was very successful at Iowa, a well-established program in the Big Ten, and he made a quantum leap to Arizona at a similar stage in his career.
balanced best offense score simplify variety
The best part of our offense tonight, if you want to simplify it, is that we were able to score in a variety of ways. We have a balanced team.
adversity endure few groups grow last people season team type year
There's very few people or groups that don't have to endure some type of adversity before they grow from it. I think most every season has got that element. Last year our team responded really well.
glad sorry
I'm glad we did it. I'm sorry we didn't do it sooner.
effort great sorry
I'm sorry we didn't do it sooner. It was a great effort by our team.
direction excited
I'm very excited about the direction of our program.
atlantic coast
I'm not surprised. That's the Atlantic Coast Conference.
indication perform thorough
It was a good, thorough whipping. We were outperformed in every way. There was no indication that we would perform the way we did.
call either games hard team
It was one of those games where it's hard to call either team a loser.