St. Bonaventure - 82
Mansfield – 74
Postgame Quotes

Coach Schmidt’s Opening Statement:
It was a good first game for us, give Mansfield all the credit they kept on working. We had a hard time covering Carr inside and they did a good job from an offensive standpoint spreading us out. They shot the ball well enough to keep us honest and we had trouble inside with the big guy; he’s six-foot-six, 286 pounds with great hands. I thought there were spurts where we looked good and there were times where we didn’t. In order to be successful we need to defend and rebound and that’s something we didn’t do well with tonight.

Coach on Hall and Nicholson’s value to the team:
The disappointing thing is that we’ve got to have everybody working together. It can’t just be two guys on offense it has to be the whole team. We need Jon and Andy to play defense and we need to improve with these guys leading us in our improvement.

Improvements to Make:
The concern isn’t the shooting the concern is the defense. They score 45 points in the second half- that’s unacceptable. The score 74 points for the game- that’s unacceptable. We knew they were a good team; it’s just that we didn’t execute the way we needed to execute.

On setting up the rotation:
I thought that Da’Quan Cook was OK. For him to get nine rebounds at that critical blue-collar hardnosed four position was good and if he can do that we’d be a better team for it. This game was to get their feet wet and they got their feet wet. Did they play well? From a coach’s perspective no. That’s why you play an exhibition game: to get out all the jitters.