Post Game Quotes From Ohio State’s Victory Over Duquesne – Ohio State Buckeyes
12/4/1999 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Dec. 4, 1999
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Ohio State head coach Jim O’Brien
“Obviously we’re happy with the win. It was solid, with good effort. We were as good defensively as we’ve been all year. We took a big lead and we were able to play a lot of players.”
“After this week our schedule becomes crazy. We play five games in 11 days. This will be good for us to prepare for the Big Ten season.”
“We are not yet a top-five team. We hope to be there by Big Ten season.”
Michael Redd
“We have to in and attack every game like we did tonight. We showed intensity throughout the entire game.”
“After this week, our schedule gets tough. The more game experience, the better we’ll be at the end.”
Scoonie Penn
“This season is a gradual process. We will and have to get better every game.”
“It feels good to win a game this big. We have to build on it. We played with confidence tonight on both ends. That has to happen every game.”
Duquesne head coach Darelle Porter
“Tonight we didn’t make the shots. They just weren’t falling. We didn’t stop them much. They stopped us a lot from what we like to do.”
“Our gameplan was to keep it up-tempo. Scoonie Penn did a great job executing and keeping the tempo up, which is why their rated in the country.”
(On Courtney Wallace and Wayne Smith)
“One was off and one was on. We need both of them on to compete consecutively with teams like Ohio State.”
Duquesne’s Matt Barker
“Obviously we didn’t shoot well. We took a lot of bad shots in the first half. They pounded the boards on us and dominated inside. The main problem in the game was that they executed their stuff and we didn’t execute ours.”
