Feb. 25, 2003

Recap| Box Score| Notes

Head Coach Stan Joplin:

"It's nice to get our first road. We've lost our last three games by a total of eight points and we've lost a lot close games in conference play. We needed something positive to happen because we were very disappointed that we were coming up short."

"We came up with some stops defensively and that was the big difference for us. We knew that Buffalo was going to play well because the only team that has beat Buffalo here by a large margin was Miami. I figured it was going to be a close game and it would be decided in the last two or three minutes."

Junior guard Keith Triplett:

On his three-point field goal with less than one minute remaining to give the Rockets a 63-57 lead:

"The play was supposed to be for me to go on a post screen but the guard went under. So I just stepped back and shot and fortunately it went in."

On his three at the end of the first half to give UT a 30-28 lead:

"It gave us a big lift. When you're on the road you like to be up at halftime."