Ted Woodward
Ted Woodward
Ted Woodwardis the former head men's basketball coach for the Maine Black Bears. He took over the position vacated by John Giannini in 2004, and compiled a 117-178 in 10 seasons at the helm. He has two children with his wife, Linda...
capable chance clearly conference contend extremely favorites good hot looking played start teams whatever
For whatever reason, they haven't played as well as they did at the start of the year. In December, I thought they were clearly one of the favorites in the league, and that hasn't changed. They're an extremely talented, capable opponent, and one of those teams that is looking to get hot and have as good a chance as any to contend in the conference championship.
awesome effort great half shooting start strength
They just had an awesome shooting effort in the first half tonight. They got off to a great start shooting the ball, especially from 3-point range, which has not been their strength most of this season.
across biggest great size starting talented team veterans wrapped
They have depth, size and shooting. All those things wrapped into one is a great starting point. The biggest thing is they're veterans across the board, and probably the most talented team across the board.
extra hard loose possession stealing sure team
When I say to our team to make sure everyone's on their A-game, it's really to be focused, and do the hard things. It's really about stealing a possession here or there because you're on that loose ball, or making sure we don't give that extra turnover because we need that extra possession that we didn't get with a rebound.
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We didn't feel like we played defense to our level of capability in our last game and it was a huge focus of ours to come out and do that tonight. We really locked down when we had to.
depth eight five guys six
We just don't have the depth that they have. They have eight guys and five need to play well. We have six guys and all six need to play well.
basketball days five four good half playing
We were playing very good basketball four or five days ago, even in the first half of the Hartford game. We just have to get back to doing the things we do.
cut good surprised won work
I'm a little surprised Howard won that game. Mercer has some very good players, a big frontcourt, and a very good 3-point shooter, so we have our work cut out for us again.
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So many guys on this team have never been through the America East, they don't know the history of Maine versus Vermont. When you have so many new guys, it takes some time for all that to sink in.
shots success taking took
I think we kind of got away from some of the things that we had success from when those shots started going in. I think we took some shots we haven't been taking as much and making some turnovers.
deep good great handle hurts kinds knew particular reasons team
I think that's one of the reasons they're as good as they are is they have great depth. Sure, it hurts them not having him out there, but we knew they were a team in particular that was deep enough to handle those kinds of problems.
boards focus huge offensive struggling
That was huge for us. We've been struggling on the offensive boards and that was, again, a big focus tonight.
afraid anyone good leader pride reason takes vocal
I think the reason he's such a good leader is because he does both. He's not afraid to be vocal with anyone on the team. He takes a lot of pride in not just showing, but speaking, too.
great happy waiting
I was very happy with how he played. We've been waiting for that and I thought he did a great job.