Post Game Quotes From Ohio State’s Loss to Iowa – Ohio State Buckeyes
2/9/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 9, 2000
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Ohio State head coach Jim O’Brien
%^$”Naturally it’s a disappointing loss. Give credit where credit is due. Iowa deserves a lot of credit.%^$
%^$”You have to give (Kyle) Galloway a lot of credit. That was a big, big three-pointer he made.%^$
%^$(On George Reese) “George played well. That’s a good sign when teams are double-teaming him. That means they have one more guy they need to worry about. Hopefully that will open up some looks for other guys.%^$
%^$”I think we managed the end of the game terrifically. Sometimes you just have to give credit to the other guys.”%^$
%^$Ken Johnson
%^$”It all boils down to hitting free throws. We didn’t.%^$
%^$”They hit some big baskets and that’s what beat us. Any team can beat any other team in this league. That’s what makes it so tough.”%^$
%^$Michael Redd
%^$”We have got to suck this up and come back and play well on Saturday. We played terrible defense, which has been our strength all year. We need a lot of work before Saturday.”%^$
%^$Scoonie Penn
%^$”We are tired of losing like that. That makes three this season. We did not shoot well from the free throw line, and that was the difference.%^$
%^$”We didn’t get down too far in the first half. We let them play well.”%^$
%^$Iowa head coach Steve Alford
%^$”This is always fun when it comes down to this kind of game. It was great to win on the road in front of a great college atmosphere. Our defense was outstanding. We really fought hard and that really led us to the win.%^$
%^$”I was extremely happy for Kyle Galloway, who got to make that shot. He missed it at Indiana, but he made it today.%^$
%^$”We are still a very inexperienced team. We have to take the good with the bad and learn as we go.%^$
%^$”Our gameplan coming in was not to hit three pointers. It was the selection of a shot. We did not want to shoot transition shots. We wanted long possessions and keep Ohio State out of the paint. Then we could win.%^$
%^$”I am going to tell these kids that Illinois is ranked fourth because we play pretty well when there’s a number in front of the other team.”
