Dec. 27, 1999

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Maryland vs. George Mason Postgame Quotes, Notes * 12/27/99

Gary Williams, Maryland "I like our team in tough situations. Obviously, we didn't play great tonight, but to come back and win the game when several times it looked like we might break it open but George Mason would make great runs and come back at us and we'd have to suck it up again and do it again. I was very pleased with the outcome. We did what we had to do to win the game."

"Lonny Baxter was tremendous. We've got to get back playing consistent basketball. It's probably my fault for this layoff, 15 or 16 days- whatever it was. We're young. Hopefully we'll learn from this. There's a tendency sometimes when you beat a Kentucky, everybody kind of expects you to be that good automatically, but you have to go out and prove it every night, especially when you play someone that's local."

"I thought George Mason got several rebounds, big rebounds, after they were forced to take tough shots with the shot clock winding down."

Jim Larranaga, George Mason "The name of the game is that you have to defend and you've gotta put the ball in the basket. In the first half, they shot 56 percent and only managed a one-point lead. We felt good at halftime that our defense should be able to play much better. In the second half, Maryland shot only 39 percent, but unfortunately for us we only shot 37 percent for the game. Erik Herring and Keith Holdan, who are two very good shooters, were a combined nine for 30. It wasn't like they had a lot of difficult shots. They're shots we want them taking, that we feel confident that they can make. I give Maryland a lot of credit for getting the ball inside to Lonny Baxter and Terence Morris because our defensive game plan was to try to shut them down and we were not able to do that. They found that they could just go inside to Morris and Baxter and they just continued to do it."

"We led by two points, 62-60, and then it comes down to executing. We didn't execute quite as well as we need to. I told the team right after the game, the last three minutes of the first half is exactly what we needed to do at the end of the game. We needed to put ourselves in a position where we know what we're running, where we're executing it and everybody is going to the right spot at the right time. We didn't. We got a little bit anxious and the end result is that we missed shots and weren't in offensive rebound position." from the floor this season, after holding George Mason to 37.9 tonight."