Jan. 26, 2006

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Post-Game Quotes

Head Coach Stan Joplin

"Getting off to a great start was the difference tonight. We played some good defense and took them out of their offense. I liked our defensive pressure and our rebounding was decent. We got our energy from our defense and that has happened in a long time. I saw their game at Miami that they lost at Miami in overtime and they probably should have won."

(on Florentino Valencia)

"We wanted Tino to make sure Bowler had to work on defense and that's he did. He can be a beast in the post sometimes and other times you don't know where he is. It really helps us when we go into the post and he can give us some scoring. We just want him to be aggressive and make a quick move instead of pounding the ball in the ball post like Charles Barkley used to do."

Junior forward Florentino Valencia

(on if the team is heading in the right direction)

"I think we're headed in the right direction. Even though we were on a losing a streak we stayed together as a team. We just wanted to focus on our defense tonight and that's what we did."

(on scoring a career-high 23 points)

"I just played the game tonight. I wanted to come out and play aggressive because Bowler is probably the best big man in the MAC. I just wanted to play him aggressive and play him as hard as I can."

(on scoring 50 points in the paint and going inside)

"Coach told us that he wanted to make Bowler work on both ends of the court. I tried to focus on getting to the rim and making quick moves."