Defense is what keeps us in games. We’re just scrappy. We have to lead the state in floor burns. We don’t have the biggest kids in the world. But they’re athletes. They’re quicker than most...

It’s what we’ve been looking for since Vanderbilt, basically. I think our defense played so well that we weren’t giving up any of the open shots.

How we pass and how we play defense will pretty much determine how we do. Burlington is a good team. We’ll look forward to playing them again.

You’ve got to give East Carolina credit. They fought us off and made shots tonight. On defense they played a zone, and I thought they did a good job with that.

To start with a road win is a good way to start a (league) season. We played tough defense and we made our free throws at the end.

Extremely good defense got Belmont Abbey out of some innings.

Against Benton our defense was better. It’s been something different every time. We’ve just been playing better lately. We got Hood back and our younger players are going out there with more confidence.

Our defensive coaches did one heck of a job against their triple option. The defense remained disciplined. We stuck to our game plan, which was controlling the ball on offense and limiting the time they...

Actually, there’s a huge difference. Over the course of last season, the meat and potatoes of our defense changed quite a bit from the previous seasons. And it showed how we adjusted and what speed...

Charlie’s been a guy all year long who has made plays for us. Whether that’s been on defense with a blocked shot, or getting a rebound or scoring, he’s one of those good basketball players...

The pressure is more on the defense because you have a three-year starter standing back there at quarterback rather than a rookie. There’s the pressure on the defense knowing he can take advantage of any...

They scored 26 points in three quarters. That’s solid defense.

He’s a strong runner, a great runner. But as a defense, when we saw him come in, that sparked the fire in us more to stop them.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

There are plenty of ways to attack the defense.

The offense made some adjustments at halftime and came out with a couple of different personnel, … They got the defense on its heels in the second half and really competed. Micheal made some good...

I thought on defense we were flat out getting beat one on one and in the zone. Offensively we were very stagnant. When someone had the ball the rest were just standing and watching. It...

Defensively, we played pretty hard and our net defense wasn’t bad. But we didn’t have the opportunity to put the ball away on them as much as we liked.

Traditionally, (our) citizens know civil defense well.

We’ve got to be careful. The last game, they made lots of shots and we played pretty bad defense. This time, we’ve got to step up and do our jobs from the first minute, the...

I have analysts in my building who are convinced that that’s exactly what they were, … and analysts with the Defense Intelligence Agency who tell me the opposite.

I wasn’t that good on defense.

Our defense was terrible. We were just absolutely terrible.

Bailey has played awesome defense during the tournament.

The defense is playing great. That’s a credit to our coaches and the work that they put in every week.

It was just a game where we didn’t make shots. When you don’t make shots regardless of what the defense is like, it’s going to be tough to win.

We had 33 offensive rebounds and we played well on the defensive end. Defense carried us.

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

We stayed composed. We got great looks, we just did not knock them down. Thankfully, our defense held them to 53 points.

It’s the first line of defense.

I love playing defense because I know I’m not the best offensive player. Every night my defense can be on or off, but my defense will always be on. That’s what I try to do.

[Kenneth Pollack of National Defense University said Saddam Hussein felt he had not lost anything and perhaps gained something from previous crises.] In either of those circumstances, … it’s worth something to him to try...

Our defense has been so much better and our kids are finally finishing it up (on offense). We’ve gotten our confidence back, and that’s what has gotten them through the past few games.

We played really sluggish and relaxed on defense. We played lousy.

Overall I was pleased with the way we played. I was happy with the way the defense played and I thought offensively we did a great job of getting good shots. We didn’t shoot the...

We just couldn’t hit a shot and they pulled away. We played super defense but couldn’t score.

Defensively I thought we did a pretty good job with our 1-3-1 zone defense in the first half. We found their shooters when they tried to overload it.

You give them credit. They played good defense. Some shots didn’t fall down for us. Fortunately, it’s not the best-of-1.

Best at the defensive end, that was the difference. She sacrificed her offense to concentrate on defense to help us get this win.

They’re a very good team. They play pretty good defense. They’ve struggled shooting the ball lately.

We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn’t shoot well. People can preach team (play) and people can preach defense, (but) it doesn’t matter if you can’t put the ball in the...

We’d probably lose. That’s what is keeping us on top. Our defense leads to easy buckets on offense.

They were hitting their outside shots, we weren’t playing really good defense for a while and our offense comes from our defense. Once our defense started to click, everyone got involved in our offense and...

I think the biggest thing for us is going to be a strong press defense and creating a lot of opportunities and capitalizing on them. If we can minimize our mistakes, then we can win.

We score with the best of them. If we concentrate on defense like we do on offense, then we’ll win a lot more ballgames.

Marcus was more aggressive than we were on defense. You can’t allow a great player to dictate what he wants to do. When that happens, you’re in trouble.

In the second half, La Conner tightened their defense. They packed defenders into the box … the ball kept deflecting off people.

In the second half we came out and attacked more offensively and locked down on defense. We made them turn the ball over a lot more than we did. (Terry) definitely stepped up and made...

Our starting pitchers did an excellent job and we played pretty good defense today, so it’s a good way to start.

Everybody is eager to play defense this year. Everybody wants to get stops, everybody wants to press, everybody wants to do all that stuff, there’s a lot of pride on defense.