Post Game Quotes

Head Coach Steve Hawkins

"It's one of those games that I'm glad is over, we were tested and obviously Kellen bailed us out setting a record for threes... They have some good guards, they were 6-0 coming in here and they expected to win, that is a good basketball team, we knew they were going to come after us... it was a bad effort, we have played four games and this was the first dud, somehow we found a way to win... We were at a point where we said on the bench we cannot defend these guys, with our lack of awareness, and the confidence Rochester was playing with we just were going to have to outscore them... one of the biggest things that happened tonight was that every opponent will see tonight and now there is another guy to account for, that will open the floor for guys like Thomas and Tucker... We have to be balanced with minutes and personnel on the floor and I feel like we have done good job with that so far... the guys on the floor won the game for us, it certainly wasn't our defense, we were terrible defensively, everything we pride ourselves on, 50-50 balls, rebounds they just out hustled us... Our guys recognized what we're doing well and did a good job of getting Kellen the ball.

Kellen McCormick

"I just had that night where everything was dropping for me, my teammates did a great job of getting me the ball... being a stretch four it opens the floor more for guys like Thomas... Rochester played a really good game, they played very tough.

Thomas Wilder

"Rochester is a good team, Kellen was hot today and Coach Hawk always tells us to ride the hot player... it is still early in the year, we are still trying to find ourselves... we have a really good team, everybody is starting to fill a role and when our bench comes in we do not miss a beat.