Nov. 28, 2009

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LAHAINA, Hawaii -- Notable Quotes: Game 10— Maryland vs. Wisconsin

Wisconsin Head Coach Bo Ryan
“In case you were wondering why I was fumbling up here, how many of you have the golf pants with two pockets? I never get the right pockets the first time.”

“The difference between involved and committed is you look at a breakfast of bacon and eggs. You look at the eggs and you know the chicken was involved. You look at the bacon and you know that the pig was committed. I think my guys are committed, it doesn’t mean they’re pigs. They bought in defensively.”

“Tom Davis was a guy I learned a lot of basketball from. Those cutters that Maryland’s been running for 100 years is from that same school and we’ve been doing it for a long time also because you’ve got to guard them.”

“The difference was we hit more threes than them.”

About not being affected by the quick turn-aound…
“I attribute that to our hill running, there are still copies of the book available, Another Hill to Climb, where you can read about our hill. Conditioning is big.”

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Maryland Head Coach Gary Williams

“Hopefully we’ll get that coming out of here, the importance of playing your best basketball in early going the game to establish yourself. You can’t come from behind all the time against good teams.”

“It’s kind of funny. You hear a lot of teams being talked about but you don’t always hear Wisconsin, but they show up every year in the NCAA Tournament and I’m sure they’ll be back this year.”

“We thought after last night watching them that if we doubled down and they kick it, since they didn’t make threes last night, that would work. They made threes today. They didn’t make the same shots last night.”

“I think our seniors did a great job, but we do need our bench to play. Hopefully by December 12, when we get everybody back we’ll have a very good bench.”

“We have to learn how to play aggressive defense without fouling.”
What he learned… “That we won’t quit. And that we have to run better half court offense. The encouraging thing to me is we ran our best offense over here in the second half of this game. We scored 42 points against a very good defensive team. That is a good sign for us.”

“Bo and I come from the same tree, Tom Davis had a big effect on both of us. Tom got me in to college coaching. The great thing for me with Tom Davis, I was strictly man-to-man (since) we weren’t allowed to play zone at Maryland back then, so I had to learn a lot from Tom about zone pressing, drop back zone defenses. And the flex cut is really Tom Davis’, we ran that in 1971 at Lafayette.”

“They (Wisconsin) have better guard play than people think. As he (Jeff Leuer) gets stronger, he’ll be exceptional. I just like the way he plays, he’s not afraid to take big shots.”