CHARLESTON, S.C. - Charleston Southern Head Coach Barclay Radebaugh provides his thoughts after CSU's 70-69 setback to Liberty Saturday, Feb. 5.

Coach Radebaugh
On the keys to the end of the game:
It comes down to boxing out. Giving up 14 offensive rebounds is, you know, it's tough to win college basketball games giving up that many offensive rebounds.

On the defensive execution:
We stepped over to help, and then didn't go back to our man and box out. When you do that, that opens up a lane for the post players to come in on a miss. You know, you get their guards shooting contested 8-foot shots, and then our posts are sliding over and then we don't go back and box out. So they just play volleyball with it up there.

On the team's opportunities toward the end of the contest:
Even with all that; if we get two box-outs there at the end, we win, or have a chance to win, and put ourselves in a position to have the ball with eight or nine seconds. I like our chances.

On CSU's last-minute shot attempts:
You know, we had a look, had a look from three late in the game. If it goes down, we're up two. So, I give our guys a lot of credit for playing hard, and hopefully we can continue to work on fundamentals of boxing out.

On where the team stands heading forward:
We're disappointed, and it's one that hurts, but we got to go get one on the road now. We got to get one on the road, and that's just what it comes down to. We gotta protect our home court in the last three at home, and put ourselves in the position to go into the tournament with a top-4 seed. This team is capable of that, and, you know, certainly we feel like we're one of the better teams in the league, and I think our effort was tremendous tonight. Our effort was very much good enough to win. Our execution wasn't.

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