Steve McClain
Steve McClain
Steve McClainis the men's head basketball coach at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He had spent the previous five seasons on the staff of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team...
ball bounce choice fight maybe
We have enough fight in us. There's only one choice -- keep fighting. Maybe a ball will bounce our way one time.
energy handled himself hurt kids lost playing proud though
Even though we lost our lead, I thought that CSU lost a lot of energy and that hurt them in the end. I'm proud of our kids for playing well in this environment. Brandon (Ewing) handled himself well, he just doesn't ware down.
assistant challenge enjoyed fear john playing scout since
I've always enjoyed the challenge of playing them. I've been lucky. My assistant John Adams has (been) the scout for them since Day 1, and we don't fear playing them.
lucky seem
Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.
carry good guys needed offense tonight
Were we as good defensively as we needed to be? No. But tonight should have been a night where our offense was good enough to carry us. We didn't get enough from our big guys to carry us.
everybody excited feeling hopefully learned start
I think everybody will start (tonight) feeling like you got through the preseason, hopefully you learned some things, hopefully you learned some things. Now, it's the start of another 16-game season, and I think everybody's excited about it.
frustrated justin
I think Justin was tired. I think he's frustrated right now.
brad clean freddy front knew ready standing
I thought he had a clean look. I knew where Brad (Jones) was going there (with the pass) because Freddy Robinson, I think, was standing in front of him ready to take a charge.
good maybe time
Maybe I even take some of the blame. By the time we go back to Vegas, (Wyoming is) going to be really good again.
afraid air answer best change eight force grasp guys hard ike played practice
We've never been afraid to change our lineup for the Air Force game. When practice is over after two days, I'll go, 'These eight guys have the best grasp of what we have to do.' It'll be hard not to (change) because Ross and Ike have played well, but I don't know. I can't answer that right now.
discredit early game gave good job points
We gave him 10 points early in the game and after that we did a good job on him. He's a good player. You can't discredit what he did.
hard work
We had 30 fouls to give tonight. We were going to make them work hard for everything.
ball chance defense kept shooting struggled win
We struggled shooting the ball but our defense kept us where we had a chance to win the game. That's kind of been our trademark.
people places played
You look at the places they've played ... and not a lot of people would have done anything different than they've done.