Feb. 5, 2005

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Post-Game Quotes

Cleveland State Head Coach Mike Garland:"First of all, let me catch my breath. Our players left it all on the floor. This is a team victory. I cant single one guy out from any other. We got plays from everybody, and that's what this whole thing is about. Believe it or not, we had the feeling at half time that we were still in this game. This just helps to buld on everything that we've been talking about all year long. It's just another step in the process."

On the point guards, Walt Chavis and Mike Redell: "They are the corner stones of this team. They are something else. There is something between those two guys where they know where each other is at all times."

"I believe in hard work and that you get what you desereve. And our kids, staff and adminsitators have worked their gust out. This is a credit to everybody. The law of averages eventually work out."

Cleveland State forward Omari Westley: "We never got down on each other. We never got down about the game and we never watched the scoreboard. We just kept chewing away. I love beating Detroit. They got two wins from us a year ago, so this is a great feeling right now to get a `W.'"

"We come out flat some games, but for the last three or four games, we've come out with a lot of energy. We just found a way, somehow, to pick up that enthusiasm in the second half and come out with a victory. Detroit is a pretty tought team. They are physical. They put a lot of pressure on us and went after every offensive rebound. So we just had to go in the locker room at half time and regroup and said `We just have to play as tough as they do.'"

Cleveland State forward Raheem Moss: "In the first half, we knew that we weren't hitting shots and that they were hitting almost any shot that they put up. As we were going into the locker room, we didn't have our heads down. We knew that we were playing good defense, it was just that they were making everything that they shot. The only thing we had to focus on was to continue to play defense and hopfully some shots would start falling down. The difference between the first and second half is that we came out with more emotion to the game and that really carried us over."

Detroit Head Coach Perry Watson: "Obviously, this is a disappointing loss. We played as well as we could in the first half and in the second half, we didn't play well at all. On top of that,they were definitly aggressive trapping. I thought it was amazing to see that in the second half they shot 21 free throws and we shot three."