It was a great win for us. We beat a hot team which has become one of the best teams in the league. These guys are starting to believe in themselves. All the things we talked about four, five, six weeks ago they had to prove we could do them. We're starting to prove we can do them.
"Joe Mihalich" is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Hofstra University.
Mihalich was named head coach on April 10, 2013. Prior to that, he led Niagara Purple Eagles men's basketball/Niagara to two NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship/NCAA tournaments, in 2005 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/2005 and 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament/2007, and three National Invitation Tournament, in 2004 National Invitation Tournament/2004, 2009 National Invitation Tournament/2009 and 2013 National Invitation Tournament/2013.
He received the Skip Prosser Man of the Year Award in 2013.
More Joe Mihalich on Wikipedia.This is one you're just going to second-guess forever and ever and ever. It's hard to look at the positives but that's our job to do. We played the best team in the league . . . and we had them beat, played our hearts and guts out and just couldn't finish the job.
It's our ball and anything but that. It was a combination of execution. One guy not coming hard enough to the ball and another guy not putting enough zip on the pass or reading that he wasn't open.
It's a good feeling to be at home and it's a good feeling to get a win. Four to six weeks ago, we probably wouldn't have won this game, but we're coming together as a team. It was better for us to battle back and win this game than to win by 12 to 15 points.
We're all kind of in a state of shock right now. It's times like this that really test your faith. For some reason, we weren't supposed to win that game.
It's not often somebody scores 36 points and you say you did a good defensive job on him. Lorenzo locked him up and Clif Brown did a good job, too.
I don't know if we're consciously trying to do that but we talk about valuing the basketball and the possessions are longer. We've made the possessions longer defensively, playing some zones, and offensively our possessions are longer, too. In years past we just let Alvin Cruz push it up there and try to find somebody quick.
Our goals are the same. Nothing has changed at all. There's no panic here, no sense of any of that stuff. We're close, so doggone close you can still feel it. We've been a one-play-here, one-play-there kind of team so far. That's why we don't sleep a lot at night.
It's caused them to focus more in a lot of ways.
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