Northwestern University Athletics
Quotes From NU-FAMU Men's Basketball
12/17/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Dec. 15, 2001
EVANSTON, Ill. -
COACHES QUOTES
Northwestern 58, Florida A&M 55
December 15, 2001
Florida A&M Head Coach Mike Gillespie
On his team's performance...
"We couldn't have played better tonight. I couldn't be prouder of the kids playing tonight."
On how FAMU prepared for Northwestern's schemes...
"I had an opportunity to watch Northwestern play and they're obviously a well-coached team. Normally, we play man-to-man. Tonight we tried a zone. If we had played man-to-man tonight, we would've been destroyed."
On Tavaras Hardy's 3-point shot off the inbounding pass with 3:08 remaining in the game...
"That was the key play of the whole game, that shot right there."
On his personal record at Welsh-Ryan Arena...
"I'm 0-2 in this building."
Northwestern Head Coach Bill Carmody
On his team's performance...
"What a difference a Saturday makes. We played as well as we ever had a week ago, and seven days later it was the least satisfying victory we could have."
On FAMU's zone defense...
"We were never able to solve the zone. They hung around and hung around but never had an opportunity to win. We've seen it before, and we'll see it Monday with Liberty, but we didn't have a good solution."
On his team's turnovers...
"We had as many against their half-court defense as we did against their press. We just didn't look sharp."
On Tavaras Hardy's 3-point shot off the inbounding pass with 3:08 remaining in the game...
"We tried to do that against East Carolina and missed. We told him if he's open to shoot, and he knocked it down at an opportune time."
On injuries to Vedran Vukusic and Winston Blake...
"Vedran said it felt different this time, not like when he's separated his shoulder before. He was in a lot of pain. We're taking him to the emergency room. Winston's going with him. He took a tooth to the forearm and it went pretty deep. Hopefully he will just need a tetanus shot."
