HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. - CSU Men's Basketball Head Coach Barclay Radebaugh's thoughts following the Buccaneers' 70-64 defeat to Austin Peay Friday, Nov. 26 in the Chicago Invitational Challenge.

Coach Radebaugh
On his initial reaction to the game:
I thought it was a performance that we'll look back on and learn from, for sure. We continue to struggle defensively; we continue to struggle on the boards. It's something we're going to have to really go and look back on film and see. I thought we got off to a pretty poor start. I thought the second half, once again, we played really, really well. We had the ball, down four, and Sheldon turns it over. We're just lacking some fundamentals in some areas, lacking a little bit of grit on the defensive end and on the boards.

On whether the team got to its game during the second half:
Well, I think we did that offensively. We shot the ball extremely well in the second half. It's just defensively getting back and getting stops. We're struggling there. That's the third straight game, or fourth straight game that we've allowed a team to shoot over 50 percent from the floor, and you just can't win consistently like that. We have to really look at what we're doing, and how we're playing, make some adjustments, and tinker with it a little bit, getting ready to play tomorrow.

On corrections going forward:
Well, the first thing we have to get corrected is, we're kidding ourselves if think we don't need to get the defense and rebounding corrected. Regardless of what level you play, or who you're playing against, if you allow teams to shoot that percentage consistently, then we've got some problems. We'll have to go back on the film tonight and look and see what we can correct very quickly.

On the extended road trip:
It's hurting us that we haven't had practice days. We haven't had a practice day since before The Citadel. And we need a couple good practice days. We have to improve tonight, look at it, and evaluate, and see if we can come out tomorrow and get a big win.

On the team's need for defense and rebounding in order to get its fast break going:
We didn't get our press going, and we had to back our press off. That's not how we want to play, and you have to get stops to be able to run. We have to keep working.