Jim Bolla Quotes

"We are tied for third. But they have the advantage if there's a tie breaker because they beat Fresno."

"Our priorities for our program are your family comes first, school comes second and basketball's after that somewhere. This is a situation where she just needed to be back home for a little while and we did that."

"We can't control anything like that. A lot is going to depend on what happens with our RPI number and what happens with other teams."

"The last four minutes, we buckled down and played really good (man-to-man) defense, and we got some key buckets. A year ago we probably wouldn't have finished this game. Now we're finishing games."

"You hate to do this as a coach. But I felt it was absolutely necessary."

"We finished the game. We hadn't finished the game the past four."

"We are still trying to get the players to understand that they are not executing our offense the way we want. Because we still have a chance to win at the end, it is hard for them to understand this, but we are not there yet."

"We did not dwell on it. We're 80 percent in practice. I think last Saturday was just one of those games."

"We can't simulate their quickness in practice."

"We had considerable consideration, but we didn't get in."

"When we attacked their pressure we were fine. But 75 percent of the game, we let their press bother us. When we played around with their press, we got into our scoring area with 10 or 12 seconds left (on the 30-second shot clock) and we had to rush a shot."