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UTA (16-6, 6-3) 70 at Coastal Carolina (10-12, 5-4) 72
Monday, January 30, 2017
The HTC Center • Conway, S.C.

Postgame Quotes

UTA Head Coach Scott Cross
"We definitely dug ourselves a hole. To have three losses at this point in the season puts us in a tough position. We have our work cut out for us. If you are going to win a conference championship, you have to come in to places like this and win. A conference champion is going to win those games on the road. We let a couple slip away. Right now, the bottom line is that our guys have to figure out how to play the right way every night. When we play the right way, meaning when when are defending, rebounding, taking good shots and moving the ball around, we are tough to beat. When we don't, we are below average in this league. Unfortunately, we haven't figured that out. We will get back, watch film and, hopefully, correct our mistakes.

(About coming back from 16 down in the second half) "We have some high-character guys on our team. They don't quit, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, we didn't play with our best effort for the first 25 minutes of the game. That's where we lost it. Coastal was definitely the hardest-playing team in those first 25 minutes. Not sure if the home crowd made a difference. It just seemed like Coastal wanted it more that our guys did tonight."