University of North Texas Athletics
Centenary Quotes
12/20/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Thursday, December 20, 2007 / The Super Pit
Johnny Jones Quotes
“The key for us tonight was getting off to a fast start. We played one of, if not the best first halves of basketball since we have been here tonight. We helped each other defensively and we were very sharp on the offensive end. We shot over 60% from the field, while limiting Centenary to 34% shooting. The only negative was our 10 first half turnovers. Centenary is a very good basketball team. They have beaten SMU and Texas Tech this year so we had to have the type of performance we had tonight to keep them out of rhythm,” On Ben Bell “Ben has been tremendous. He has done everything we have asked of him. He put us on his back last year at the conference tournament as a point guard. This year he has moved over and is playing the point/wing position. He defended their best player tonight,” On not having leading scorer, Josh White “Josh is our leading scorer, but we have very many capable scorers who can step up at any time. Tonight we were very balanced with four guys in double figures and two others with nine points each. We have played different stretches of this season without key guys. Keith (Wooden) has missed some time as have both Dez (Willingham) and Collin (Dennis). This is a real testament to how deep of a team we are. On going into conference “Tonight we clicked on all cylinders. This is the way we wanted to head into conference play against a good
