Steve McClain
Steve McClain
Steve McClainis the men's head basketball coach at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He had spent the previous five seasons on the staff of the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team...
frustrated justin
I think Justin was tired. I think he's frustrated right now.
care excited faith game guards kids settled stretch
Our kids got a little excited during that stretch of the game and didn't really take care of the ball. But I have a lot of faith in my guards and I think they settled down after that.
compared might people tapes watch
Our world's a little different because we can get so many tapes on people compared to high-school and junior-college. Every one of the teams, you might have about 14-15 tapes you've got to watch and know everything about them.
brad clean freddy front knew ready standing
I thought he had a clean look. I knew where Brad (Jones) was going there (with the pass) because Freddy Robinson, I think, was standing in front of him ready to take a charge.
everybody excited feeling hopefully learned start
I think everybody will start (tonight) feeling like you got through the preseason, hopefully you learned some things, hopefully you learned some things. Now, it's the start of another 16-game season, and I think everybody's excited about it.
hard work
We had 30 fouls to give tonight. We were going to make them work hard for everything.
people places played
You look at the places they've played ... and not a lot of people would have done anything different than they've done.
carry good guys needed offense tonight
Were we as good defensively as we needed to be? No. But tonight should have been a night where our offense was good enough to carry us. We didn't get enough from our big guys to carry us.
calling fire
We'll see if I can fire him up on Wednesday, how about that? Are you calling him a kinder, gentler Ritchie?
ball chance defense kept shooting struggled win
We struggled shooting the ball but our defense kept us where we had a chance to win the game. That's kind of been our trademark.
spread vegas
Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.
discredit early game gave good job points
We gave him 10 points early in the game and after that we did a good job on him. He's a good player. You can't discredit what he did.
energy handled himself hurt kids lost playing proud though
Even though we lost our lead, I thought that CSU lost a lot of energy and that hurt them in the end. I'm proud of our kids for playing well in this environment. Brandon (Ewing) handled himself well, he just doesn't ware down.
good maybe time
Maybe I even take some of the blame. By the time we go back to Vegas, (Wyoming is) going to be really good again.