March 9, 2009
Senior Jeff Pendergraph
Thoughts on the game:
"We're kind of at the bottom right now. Losing is not good. I haven't lost this many in a row in a while. As a team, we're disappointed in how we're playing right now because this isn't us. Three in a row? It doesn't make any sense. This is like a crazy mystery to me. I don't know what's going on."
On the defense of Stanford:
"I could feel the guy breathing on my neck they were helping on defense so much."
Coach Herb Sendek
Thoughts on the game:
"I thought the whole building had a lack of energy, and it certainly was focused on us on the court. I don't think we played well in any category. We struggled to score. We struggled to make shots. Even the most open shots of the night seemingly hit the rim and clanged out. To a degree, we allowed that to spill over onto the defensive end."
On the back-to-back losses last weekend affecting this game:
"I can't go there. How do you know something like that? The minute you let yourself trespass into that area, you're using a crutch and you're making an excuse. We had another game tonight and we had to play much better than we did."
On Stanford's zone defense affecting the Sun Devils shooting:
"They only played a few possessions of zone and I don't know if the quality of our shots against a zone is significantly different than that against man. Our defense wasn't nearly as good as it needs to be given our offensive potency right now."