Defending Quotes

You've got to turn your game up more, especially against the defending champs. - Mike Peterson

You've got to play good teams to get better. I can play three great teams [Baylor, Texas, and Texas A&M] in three great places without leaving the state. Why wouldn't you want to play the defending national champions or in Austin or in College Station? - Wooly Hatchell

You're not going to stop Paul Pierce. Eric Snow did a solid job of applying physical pressure. He had a hand in his face. When somebody else took their turn they did the same thing. We did a good job of defending away from the ball. - Mike Brown

You watch how teams are defending it. Do they play a box or a diamond? Do they come after you or sit back? - Dale Hunter

You play against Boston, the defending world champion. New York is the 26-time world champions. [The Angels], they just won the World Series two years ago. We should be kind of under the radar. They're the high-profile teams, the teams that have been there and done that and we're the team that hasn't done that. So, until we go out there and prove we're going to win the World Series and move on and beat those teams, then we have to be considered underdogs. - Chris Widger

You look how far this area has come. There really isn't an easy game out there. Selma is so good and talented. Lanier is the defending champion and I think we are getting better. - Michelle Simmons

You have to give North credit. They are the defending champion and they came out and played a good game. We just played two quarters tonight. - Milton Galloso

You have to correct mistakes and just show where we had breakdowns. A lot of it was communication. That's something that we'll have to correct and go back to fundamentals. You've got a totally different game plan this week and a different type of team that you're defending. - Barry Alvarez

You can't win a series against the three-time defending champions by playing two terrible periods. - Nick Iaciancio