UW-Green Bay and Detroit Postgame Quotes

March 5, 2005

Detroit Head Coach Perry Watson on the win

"I thought in the second half that our big men really just took the opportunity
to fight them and created opportunities that Brandon (Cotton) and James (Thues)
could score off of. So it started with the fight in the pits with those guys."

Watson on how his team has grown up throughout the season

"We've had a team that's really has matured throughout the season. We only play
one senior and we had to start the season without Brandon (Cotton) because he
missed maybe the first eight or nine games because of transfer rules. So now
you've got a great player that's really a freshman that you're trying to teach
how to play and teach guys how to play with him."

Watson on Cotton

"He's just tremendous. From a coach's standpoint, he's really doing all of this
on talent and not so much know-how. I look at our last player of the year,
Willie Green, and Willie wasn't near the point where this kid is as a
freshman."

Detroit's Brandon Cotton on shutting down UWGB's Matt Rohde

"It wasn't easy, but I just knew how to be there and catch him when he caught
the ball."

Detroit's James Thues on who the Titans will play in the title game

"It doesn't matter, really, where we'll be playing or who we'll be playing. We
think we can beat anybody if we keep doing what we've been doing."

UW-Green Bay Head Coach Tod Kowalczyk on the loss

"We have, in each recent loss, had droughts where we've had a hard time scoring.
During that stretch, I think what happened was we settled for too many jump
shots. We stopped getting the ball inside and attacking the basket and that, to
me, was the cause."

Kowalczyk on Matt Rohde

"There's no better defender that I've coached in 17 years. Matt really helped
you win basketball games in so many other ways. And, obviously, he didn't shoot
the ball well tonight but that was just a portion of what he did for our
program."

Matt Rohde on being held scoreless

"I was looking for my shot. I felt comfortable out there. The shots I took were
good shots. They just weren't falling."

Brandon Morris on the second half

"I don't think they were doing anything different. We just couldn't get the ball
in. I thought we executed well but the shots weren't falling."