Head Coach Dave Bezold

On the outcome of the game…
“It’s a disappointing effort, that’s my general feeling on the game. You come home, and we ought to win at home. We felt like we had some momentum going into this game, and we just laid an egg.”

On Derek Fey’s 16 points and 16 rebounds…
“I wish he was on our team. That’s what is so disappointing, for someone to outwork you, and that is what he did. He’s a hard-working kid. Hopefully some of that rubbed off on some of our guys tonight.”

On the team’s 20 turnovers…
“It goes back to our inconsistencies all year. We picked the wrong time to turn it over, carelessness. Those were the result of our mental state coming out of the locker room today, when we just weren’t sharp and that leads to turnovers. We weren’t willing to work hard enough to get through it, not willing to work hard enough offensively to make sure that didn’t happen. They outworked us.”

On improvements to be made before Saturday’s game against Wisconsin-Parkside…
“We are going to have to play a lot harder with a lot more passion. What’s really disappointing is we’ve got some really talented guys that their passion only burns every so often. We’re going to have to have a little gut check, and we’re going to have to figure out if we are going to get back into this thing. Or, we are going to wind up playing about five or six players who we know are going to respond for us.”

Kevin Schappell

On changes needed to be made before Saturday…
“We just need to come out at the beginning of the game and be ready to play. We’re not ready to play every game, which you saw today.”

On Derek Fey’s double-double…
“He just outworked us and outhustled us. It can’t happen.”

On what they need to work on before Saturday…
“Rebounding, we need to work on definitely. We need to just work on playing hard and coming out every game ready to play.”

Mike Kelsey

On Saint Joseph’s run at the beginning of the second half…
“We were just flat the entire game until about the 12-minute mark of the second half when we actually started competing. There was no competing out of our team tonight. When you play a good team, you are going to get beat, and you are going to get beat bad.”

On the difference between the two games against Saint Joseph’s…
“It was a lack of intensity on our part tonight. I don’t know. Last time we played them we had come off a loss to (Indianapolis), and we came into that game ready. We were ahead and we knocked down shots, and tonight we were just flat. Every game we just have to come out with intensity and be ready to compete.”

On what needs to be practiced before Saturday’s game…
“We’ve got to forget about this. There’s no sense in remembering this game. We have to forget about this game and learn from our mistakes on how we came out so flat and the lack of intensity. We just need to come ready to practice tomorrow and be ready Saturday.”