Xavier University Athletics
Post Game Quotes
01.08.09 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 8, 2009
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No. 16 AP/18 ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll Xavier University Musketeers
vs.
Saint Louis University Billikens
January 8, 2009
Game Quotes
Xavier Players
Jason Love
“They [St. Louis] have a young team with their bigs being freshmen and sophomores. We wanted to enforce our will on them inside and that’s what we did.”
Danté Jackson
“It started on defense. We got some easy buckets. Our game plan was to get it inside to the big guys. I thought we did a pretty good job of that.”
“It starts with our mentality. Guys are a little more intense with the ball. We’ve got to keep it going on Sunday.”
On Tommie Liddell and Kevin Lisch
“Those are two really good players. I think B.J. [Raymond], myself, Brad [Redford] and Terrell [Holloway], we did the best we could do on those two guys. They missed some shots, but our guys did a really good job.” St. Louis Head
Saint Louis Head Coach Rick Majerus
“They beat us in every possible way you can be beaten. I don’t know who’s a top 10 or top 20 team, but they’re a really good team. They’ve got a lot of players and they play freshmen the way you want to play freshmen, whereas, conversely, we have to rely on freshmen.”
“They’re as athletic as any team I’ve seen.”
Xavier Head Coach Sean Miller
“I’m very happy with the win. You only get eight home games [in the A-10] and you’ve got to protect your home court. St. Louis is a good team, but very young and inexperienced around the basket. And we are deep and experienced around the basket. We took advantage of that.”
“I thought Derrick [Brown] did a good job. Six for six from the field and 20 points. He’s such an unselfish player. He’s worked hard.”
“It was a good night for C.J. [Anderson]. His size was a tough matchup for St. Louis. Like I mentioned a number of times, he’s a team leader.”
“I can’t say enough good things about Danté Jackson. I told him he wasn’t starting, and that affected him about a half second. He’s doing exactly what I’m asking of him. He’s a winner. He’s fun to have on your team. It’s easy to be a team leader when you play as hard as Danté. Six assists and one turnover, he’s doing everything we could ask of him.”
“Jamel McLean continues to do an incredible job. Six rebounds in 19 minutes. I thought he had two really big putbacks. He has been very good coming off the bench since Christmas.”
