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Hoops 🏀 Nate Oats & players Friday NCAA Tournament presser

Jack Knowlton

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Oct 10, 2023
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Mark Sears: "From the first Monday, Tuesday we've just been doing skill work."
Sears: "We just gotta realize it's a new season, everybody's 0-0."
Mark Sears described Spokane as a "quiet" city. Estrada seconded that. Said the landscape is similar to what he had at Oregon.
Aaron Estrada on his past games against Charleston: "I kinda know their system... I kinda know how they play I know a lot of players on that team. I'm already knowing what to expect."
Nate Oats: "We felt like we maybe could have been a little bit better but we've had some injuries, didn't close the season really well without injuries."
On Charleston: "They're not going to be intimidated by us."
Oats said Griffen and Wrightsell will both be fully healthy. "I feel like we're as close to healthy as we've been in a while."
Nick Pringle is available for tomorrow's game. He was dealing with a personal issue, which caused his late arrival.
Oats: "The last two days we haven't done any live stuff in practice but I thought Monday and Tuesday they really got after it."
Oats on Charleston: "They have some definite actions that you have to know how to guard."
Oats said he thought he sent a similar message on defending to last season: "We don't have Herb [Jones] or Charles [Bediako] so it's harder to be third in the country in defense."
Oats: "We're a lot closer to being a championship-level team than we were two years ago."
 
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