Dayton Flyers

Jan. 16, 2008

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Head Coach Brian Gregory
"As I said a week ago, in this league if you don't come ready to scrap and play, you're going to have a hard time winning the game and that doesn't matter where you are playing at, who you're playing, where you're ranked and what your record is at. I think we didn't play aggressive enough and do the things we had been doing. When you don't do that against at team like UMass, you end up on the losing end and that ended up what happened."

"We've been talking about it all year long and we're not going to change our approach. We have to evaluate this game and we have to move forward. As of right now, just like if we won the game, we're not good enough and we have to be better, especially in this league. We'll look at the tape and look at things we didn't do well enough. Give them credit, that's a very good team and they are going to win a lot of games. This is going to be 13 hard-fought games coming up. Every game is going to be a battle."

Marcus Johnson
"We came out with a bad start and had a poor night shooting. I think a lot of it was from people not used to scrambling around and not getting open. They trapped Brian Roberts a lot and forced a lot of double teams. We just didn't step up."

"It was very difficult. Coach told us in practice this week that they are a run-and-gun team. Their point guards are able to push it and it showed and we didn't get back on defense and it hurt us."

Brian Roberts
"It was full out denial. As soon as I gave the ball up, it was tough to get it back. They would run two or three guys at me randomly and they came out and executed their game plan well."

"We knew that was the key coming into the game. It let us down a little bit. Most of their points came in transition and on dribble drives and kick outs. We didn't execute. The key was we knew shooting would help us win the game."

"It's just one game though. We have to keep our heads up. We knew UMass was a good team. It shows how tough the A-10 will be from here on out. We just have to bring our game every day."

Travis Ford
"Obviously we tried to focus on (Brian) Roberts as much as we could to try and slow him down. I thought our guys did a good job and were focused on the game plan and executing it almost to perfection in terms of what we were trying to do. We were a team that was disappointed in our last time out and we responded. We looked like a wounded team out there and we responded. I think this was a team that was a ready to fight. Both teams played extremely hard and this was a very tough game."