March 9, 2004

Recap| Final Stats| Notes

Toledo coach Stan Joplin

"CMU played hard and battled. When they went small it took us out of our perimeter game."

"We could never put them away. We knew it was going to be a tough game."

"We're 19-9. We'll go to Cleveland and we'll see what happens."

"Sammy was hitting threes but we were giving up threes so it was a wash. We were scoring fine. We just couldn't get any stops."

"When Sammy's shooting like that the players know who should get the basketball."

(Triplett's halftime shot) "Keith's shot gave us a lot of energy."

Buffalo: "We played Buffalo early in the season. I would say they are playing the best basketball in the league right now. It's going to be a tough game."

"We've won one game and now we have three to go to make post-season."

Senior Ricardo Thomas

"It was a gut check. Everyone looked each other in the eye and said, we're not going out like this."

"We made the game tougher than we should have. But we did what we had to do to come out with a victory."