Doc Sadler
Doc Sadler
Kenneth "Doc" SadlerJune 12, 1960) is an American college basketball coach who is currently the head coach at Southern Miss. He was previously an assistant coach at Iowa State University...
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I think everybody was disappointed Friday. I don't ever want this program to be satisfied playing in the NIT. That is not our goal. But the NIT is a great tournament, the longest running tournament in college basketball. We're excited to be playing in it. There is always a positive in everything and the positive in this is that we get to play at home again.
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It doesn't get any easier. We're playing extremely hard, we're just not making the plays we need to make to win close games. We need to keep working hard. It's going to come.
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When you are talking about a Bob Knight-coached team, you know they are going to run motion offense, play man-to-man defense and not beat themselves. Our transition defense will be huge. And we have to prevent Jackson and Zeno from having great games.
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We're trying to sign three or four more. We are mixing it between junior college players and high school kids.
earlier feet felt pick year
We felt like we could pick up 94 feet - something we were doing earlier in the year when we had more bodies.
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I'd love to sit here Wednesday night and say we're 10-1 (in Conference USA), but it's going to be a challenge. I don't know if we're going to win or lose but I know we're going to lay it on the line for 40 minutes, just as we have for these first 23 games.
night tune wednesday
I don't know yet what we will do. Tune in Wednesday night and see.
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He won't play this week. They won't give me a date (when he might return), but I know he won't play this week. It will apparently be week-to-week.
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This team has overcome so much adversity. It speaks to the character of the kids. It seems like every week they've gone through something. It's an unbelievable group of guys. You don't win as many games as these guys have and not be different. That's what they are . They're just different. I don't know how to describe it.
depth either gone hard helped kept played playing wear
We just kept playing hard and I think our depth helped us wear them down a little in the end. But they played well and it could have gone either way.
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We felt we could pick 'em up at 94 feet. We were able to create 23 turnovers. And we didn't give up any easy baskets.
against bad forced score syracuse took transition
You get it to 44-all, I think we got a little too excited. You're not going to score in transition against Syracuse at their place. I thought we forced the issue. Even when we got it down there, we took some bad shots.
close found guys road southern won
We were down 12 on the road and we found a way to win. Give our guys credit. Give Southern Mississippi credit, too. But we have some experienced guys who have won some close ballgames, and that had to help.
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At some point, you have just got to tip your hat to the other team. The best team won tonight.