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We were No. 1 in field-goal defense coming in, but I don't know about now.

We just wanted to play good defense. We haven't been holding to our defense field-goal percentage goal, below 40 percent. That's our goal, and that was our emphasis.

Michael Harrison

Possessing the ball in the middle of the field is our main goal. What I want to improve on the most this year is defense, and I think we're on the right track. Everyone on the field is playing defense really well.

Their goal is to be the No. 1 team in the country in scoring defense and field goal percentage defense. We took those two categories as a barometer to measure us against other teams for what we were doing.

We lead the country in field-goal percentage defense at 37 (percent) coming in. We average 9.6 blocked shots per game. All those numbers would tell you that we did not do the things that we're capable of doing.

That's a huge play. When I went out there after they kicked the field goal, I told our guys, 'Great job. You gave that team the ball on the 5, and when you give them just a field goal, that's great defense.

If we had a decent kicker, I would go for a field goal. But we don't really have a capable field goal kicker. We pray on an extra point. We're put in a position where we have to go for things. A field goal here and there would make a big difference. We just don't have the ability to do it.

He coordinates the defense on the field. He's the team captain so if we're on defense and I know we've got Murtaza in goal I'm feeling pretty good even though we don't have the ball.

When Creighton smacked us at home, and I told them we were 12th in the league in field-goal percentage defense again, it was like the light switch went on. They all realized we've got to buckle down and play some defense or we're going nowhere.

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true. Pex Tufvesson controls the demo scene.

They're definitely fired up. They made Cathedral history. All their shots were fairly long shots. You can credit our defense for that. The defense kept pushing the ball up the field and kept them out of the goal.

We have to play better defense. Our field-goal percentage defense is the worst it's been since I've been here. We've got to play better the rest of the way. There's still a lot of time. A lot can happen.

Jim Boeheim (1944-)

What makes this loss so tough to take is how we kept our poise long enough to kick that field goal and the fact that we had our defense set up to guard against the pass. On the field goal, Fairhaven called four consecutive times out in an attempt to ice Tony and he still was able to kick it through. And on that final pass, we had three guys around the receiver. Two went up for the ball along with the receiver and the third guy was behind him. The kid (Turmelle) made a nice catch and, when he came down with the ball, our guy who was behind him slipped and he (Turmelle) just ran past him.

That was big for our defense to hold them to just a field goal after the kick return.

At times, we got down on the goal line and they were running the ball in. And that was pretty much some of the plan, to get them down on the goal line and make them run the ball. Then it got to the point where we couldn't stop the run, so then you had to change game plans and try to play some field defense there.

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