The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Quotes: Texas at West Virginia
02.05.2013 | Men's Basketball
Feb. 4, 2013
TEXAS
Head Coach Rick Barnes
Opening Statement: I think West Virginia is an excellent defensive team. They are not going to give you a lot. We went for two steals late at crucial times, which hurt us. We knew that they were going to go 1-3-1 and we talked about that at the timeout. We came out but didn't execute what we wanted to do. I know we are a young group of guys, but tonight I thought it was the first time, from an internal mindset, that we were a team, and I'm really proud of the way our guys stayed together. I thought the bench was great, we fought through some things, we got down and showed some fight. Tonight might have been a big step for us, in terms of being a team, a real team from the inside out.
On Texas coming back after being down double digits in the second half: We weren't very good defensively at the start of the second half. I think Demarcus Holland had a lot to do with the comeback. He came in and really changed some things. And we also got a little better as an offensive team on the floor. We started making things happen defensively, we got out in the open court and scored. It was a hard fought game and we knew it was going to be one coming in. We've had two of them with West Virginia. We have to get better at the free throw line. We need our big guys to get into position and draw some fouls. We are close but it's the mental things, a couple possessions here and there that we need to get.
WEST VIRGINIA
Head Coach Bob Huggins
On the difference between the game at Texas (Jan. 9) and the game tonight: There was a big difference. We shot 46 percent here. I don't remember, but I think we shot in the 30s there. We didn't shoot great, but we shot a lot better. We rebounded it better there and they rebounded it better here.
On what Texas did to make a comeback: Their point guard [Javan Felix] played great. He made some hard shots and we got on the side of him. We didn't do a very good job with the screen. We tried to get under and keep him in front of us but we didn't do a very good job of that. We tried to hard hatch it and we didn't do a very good job of that so we ended up doubling.
