Feb. 4, 2006

Recap |  Box Score

California Head Coach Ben Braun
"I thought our guys made some big plays tonight. We did a good job defending Hairston. He's such a great player, that was really a challenge for our team."

"Leon [Powe] made two big plays for us down the stretch. He struggled a bit but he made some big plays. I thought Oregon defended him pretty well."

"If you want to play with the teams at the top, you need to win close games and it's not always going to be pretty."

"I liked how our guys wanted the ball at the end of the game. We were strong with the ball."

Richard Midgley
"It wasn't pretty, but we got the win on the road. It doesn't matter how you did it as long as you got the win."

"This was a huge win for us. Oregon is good team, their record doesn't show how good they really are. This is just a hard place to play at."

On teammate Leon Powe:
"They did a good job on Leon [Powe] but he just kept making play after play and keeping us in the game."

"This year we're winning close games, it's huge for us."

On Cal's record:
"We know we're right there behind UCLA. We need to take it game by game. Right now we need to focus on Stanford."

Leon Powe
"This was a team effort, everyone was contributing and everyone stepped up. It was a battle."

On his play:
"I was trying to get in for my post moves, but I was kind of hesitant about posting up so I just gave it out to my teammates on the outside."

"This weekend was huge for us, every game is huge though but especially on the road."

Ayinde Ubaka
"The rim was shaking when we were shooting. That was a tough crowd. They were loud."

"I was just playing. We struggled offensively early. I just had to get us over the hump."

"That was a great team and a great crowd. We just gutted it out."

"We can beat anybody when we play defense and rebound. We need to be consistent."

Oregon head coach Ernie Kent
"I know people wondered how we would come back from the loss on Thursday to Stanford. I thought we played well and got a lot of wide open shots, they just didn't fall for us."

"In the four losses, all you have to look at is our shots. We have averaged 15 or 16 open shots in each of those games, we just need them to start falling more often."

"I thought we did a better job tonight in the possession game in the last four minutes tonight."

"Our job as coaches is to get the team through this."

"We played great defense tonight again. We executed the game plan really well. We have been excellent on defense, especially in the last four minutes."

"We had a chance to set the building on fire tonight with all of the open shots that we were given, we just were unable to convert."

"If we could handle ourselves in the last four minutes, we could be in first or second place in the Pac-10. It's a wild conference and anything can happen."

On the amount of three-pointers:
"I'm perfectly comfortable with us taking that wide open three-pointer if it's there."

On the final play:
"That's exactly where we wanted to be. We made our shots and fouled the right people at the right time. We called the `hit one, miss one' and put our biggest rebounders in the low blocks. Aaron executed it perfectly, we just didn't get the shot to go down."