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Utah 69, New Mexico 68
1/31/2009 12:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 31, 2009
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Utah 69, New Mexico 68 Postgame Quotes
Utah Head Coach Jim Boylen:
"This is a difficult week with the BYU series. We were worried about a let down. I didn't like the start of our halves. The first half I thought we played a little soft. The first 10 minutes of the second half I thought we played soft. That is too good of a team to do that against."
"They are a physical team and a balanced team. I am proud of the way we battled back and hung in there, it was an uphill battle just like the BYU game."
"I want to credit Cyphers for being ready to play, his eight points are as big as it gets. I also want to credit Borha for making that play down the stretch. I was going to go with my seniors down the stretch, and we did."
"Every game for this program is huge when you are trying to build the program, every game when you are playing for the conference is huge, and every game for my seniors is huge since it is one less game they will play."
Sophomore guard Carlon Brown:
"We just have to keep it pushing. We weren't as focused and weren't getting to our assignments as fast but as the game went on we started to pick it up and play a little better."
Senior guard Luka Drca:
"In the beginning of the game we weren't following our defensive assignments. But as the game went on it got better and we got a couple of shots in a row and we got a lead at halftime."
"In the second half we couldn't make a shot in the beginning and our defense was poor again so we picked in up and battled back and we got on the right track."
New Mexico Head Coach Steve Alford
"I thought we did a lot of good things. I thought Daniel [Faris] was terrific and the job he did on Nevill was, I thought, tremendous."
"It was a tight game and they made on more play than we did. We just came up one play short."
"I thought we got great shots and I thought that we got every shot that we wanted, the guys did a really good job with time management, the difference was the free throw line they got 15 pints and we got 6. In a tight game like this you look at it and everything is pretty even. The boards are even, turnovers are pretty much a wash, the difference was the foul line."
"I thought that both teams played hard and they played well. We came into somebody's building and shot 54% and we held them to 40%. You just have to give them credit, in a game where I thought both teams were fighting like crazy, they made one extra play."
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