Coach Eaves on Steven Rush's early start
"Steve was tremendous the first 8 or 9 minutes of the game. But the team has to learn how to keeps its composure with chances where we could have put the game away. We just missed layup after layup and free throw after free throw. So we were just going to have to continue working that out."

Coach Eaves on Greensboro native Steven Rush playing against WSSU
"He talked about playing Winston-Salem State all summer. It’s just in his blood. He grew up watching it, so it’s a tremendous thing to him. I am glad they’re in the conference. It’s great for both schools. In the state, you’ve got Carolina versus Duke. But you’ve also got the A&T-Winston-Salem State Rams rivalry. That’s very good too. I am glad it started again.”

Coach Eaves on the sellout crowd
"I certainly wasn't surprised by the size of the crowd. I knew we would be packed to the rafters absolutely."

Coach Eaves on shot blocker Thomas Coleman's presence in the game
"He’s just a tremendous attribute to our program and a tremendous young man. He does everything I ask and he’s got super timing. He's as long as he can be. (WSSU) Coach Collins did a tremendous job of staying small quiet a bit, they just couldn’t hit the threes. But when they attacked the basket he is a presence in there. He was very much a force when they were making their run in the 2^nd half. He got two deflections and a traveling call."

Coach Eaves on the Aggies defense
"Anytime you hold them to 56 points, you've done a tremendous job. A lot of it had to do with them missing shots. But you know we tried to contest shots we tried to put pressure on. We try to come up with some steals in our press, just like they did. I think both teams played tremendously well defensively. It’s just that Steve got us off to a great start. After that we shot the threes the same way they did. I think Austin Ewing made the only threes in the second half, so both teams were very cool. But our defense since the Morgan State game has been the defense of old since I have been here for 4 1/2 half years. We are holding people in the fifties and sixties. That’s what we do. That’s how we play.

Coach Eaves on the Aggies four-game winning streak after playing the toughest non-conference schedule in the country
We had THE toughest non-conference schedule in the country, so let’s don’t say tough. It may have been too tough, and we bit off a little more then we could chew early. I still think we have a little residue because we are not playing well yet. We don’t have full confidence yet at all positions, but I think its coming. We're going to continue to improve, hopefully we can hit that t stride and see how far we can take this winning streak. We've got three more games at home -- South Carolina State is a great opponent -- I don’t know what they did today against  Norfolk State  but they're going to come in here right behind us in the standing. It's going to be very competitive. "

Steven Rush on playing WSSU
"This is the first time we have played them in 10 years. We know they are going to come right back at us when we go down to Winston in February. We came out well and played hard. We knew that Winston was going to be a tough team. We watched film on them, and they played hard. We wanted to match their intensity early. I wanted to get up for my team and help us get off to a good start, and I think I did well in accomplishing that goal."

Rush on what the Rams tried to do to him defensively
"They came at me with a lot of different players. It is something that I saw last year when I started making a name for myself.  I give credit to my teammates. They do a good job of getting me open. It is easy for me to stand out there and make a jump shot as opposed to setting all the picks and doing all the dirty work. We just work as a team."

Rush on the importance of the Winston-Salem State rivalry
“We’ve been anticipating this all year long, especially after football season. Winston beat us pretty good in football. Talk all-around campus has been about how we need to make up for that.”

Rush on his early start
"It is all about playing 40 minutes. I don’t think we played 40 minutes. We played well when we needed to and we got off to a great start and we kind of just held that lead. We got to learn how to finish game too. I feel like we played a great first half, but we played poorly in the second half. I don’t think we scored as nearly as many points. We gave up a lot of layups. We've got to tighten up if we plan on winning this thing."

WSSU head coach Bobby Collins on Rush's fast start
"He had a dead lock on the rim, he was just on fire. He was shooting from 20-25 feet from the basket and there was nothing we could really do. I was just glad when coach subbed for him and got him out of the game. That was the only way we could stop him tonight. We did a pretty god job in the second half of containing him making him take tough shots."

 Coach Collins on the rivalry
"I just told them that if I have to be a rah, rah coach and get you pumped up to play your rivalry school then you are really not a player. To come in a place like this -- in a hostile environment -- you have to be mentally tough a mentally focused and that is something that we were obviously not tonight."

Coach Collins on playing at Irvin-Corbett Court
"It seems like tonight the crowd was just right on my back. My team could not hear (point guard) Roy Peake speak, and they could not hear the plays that we were trying to call. That is why we kind of got confused with our offence and if we did not call a offensive set  during a  dead ball then it was going to be very difficult to call because the crowd was so loud and so involved. You know coming in that A&T has a tremendous advantage any time they play here. The sixth man and the fans here at A&T are very crucial, very involved and vital to their success."