Boston College Athletics
Post Game Quotes
January 12, 2002 | Men's Basketball
Jan. 12, 2002
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Coach Al Skinner - Boston College
"Hopefully he (Ryan Sidney) will be ready to go on Thursday ... There wasn't a lot of swelling, so hopefully he will be ready to go. Obviously, we are not going to have a lot of success without him. We need his ball-handling and defense, particularly in this game and in many others and we showed that can execute as well as we needed."
"I knew that when he went down and didn't come back in the second half that we were going to struggle because that meant that Troy (Bell) was responsible to handle the ball and they (Georgetown's defense) were going to stay after him ... They (Georgetown) are a good basketball team and they have some athletic guys and defensively they are real solid."
"We were excited about playing the game and coming back home after a good win on the road and we wanted to play well, so the anxiousness shows up some times. I thought we were aggressive at times and I felt we took good shots, but we just missed them."
"We don't have the depth right now, and if you take away one of those players (Bell or Sidney) it is going to hurt us."
Troy Bell - Boston College
"We are not the type of team that can afford to have a guy go down and still be successful. We're young, we're not very athletic and we're not that quick, so we need every player for this to work at all."
This is the most embarrassing game I have ever been a part of in my life, and it was a shame that it was on national TV. I wish it would have been a scrimmage. We really needed Ryan out there, and if I am not able to put up numbers then we are not going to be successful and we need Ryan out there for us. It was just a terrible game for us."
Coach Craig Escherick - Georgetown
"The key to the game was the job we did on Troy Bell. Kevin Braswell started out and did a great job pressuring, full-court. As a team, I thought we played great team defense."
"It was unfortunate for Al's sake that Sidney was not able to play in the second half, he's their second best player ... that was definitely something that hurt them. But I thought the key to the game was the job that Kevin did on Troy and the job that Tony did on Troy. That really got us going."
"The thing that I have been impressed with these guys: We had lost four games in a row before this game and I did not think in any of those four games there was a sign of any quit. I didn't think in practice there was any sign that we had quit. The guys worked extremely hard, the losses bothered them as much as they bothered me... It didn't surprise me how aggressively we came out."
