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...
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They're just out there competing. They're challenging each other. This group isn't afraid to get in each other's faces and if you can't take that, you can't play. Justin's a senior. He's trying to win games on his way out. He makes that point to a lot of people.
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The big thing holding us back is the lack of rigs and the lack of people to work on them,
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Offensive rebounding. They get 20 of them and really, that's what hurt us in the first half. We guarded their stuff well enough. We had some trouble with transition defense and we had trouble with rebounding the basketball.
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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.
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Sometimes you have to get a little lucky, and we can't seem to get a little lucky right now.
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Maybe I even take some of the blame. By the time we go back to Vegas, (Wyoming is) going to be really good again.
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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.
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You look at the places they've played ... and not a lot of people would have done anything different than they've done.
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We'll see if I can fire him up on Wednesday, how about that? Are you calling him a kinder, gentler Ritchie?
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We had 30 fouls to give tonight. We were going to make them work hard for everything.
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Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.
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I know that in this business, as head coach I am measured, ultimately, by wins and losses. I was very proud of our players and what we accomplished last week. I have never doubted my ability to coach and lead the Cowboys successfully. I know how hard our coaches and players have worked for this program.
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I hope he kicks his butt all night. That's a challenge -- he's going to have to come up to it.
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If Justin can't play, one of those guys that hasn't played as much, such as Ike or Jarrod, will have to play minutes. Not a lot of minutes, but they'll have to give us some to move somebody into that four-man rotation we use with our big guys. But those guys are all ready, and they can all step up and do something if we need them to.