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Here’s post-game comments from coach Lorenzo Romar following Washington’s 67-57 win over Northern Illinois.

Opening Statement

“Interesting game for us, I can’t remember a game where we shot 31% from the field, that hadn’t been a pattern for this team. You go back and look, 11 years that we’ve been here, and I think we shot  under 47 percent maybe one or two times in eleven years, so we have  been shooting a high percentage and then tonight all of a sudden, with a lot of open looks the ball didn’t go down. Thank goodness our free throws did and I don’ t know if that was a carry over to some other areas of the game. We didn’t have 20 turnovers but our turnovers led to points for them, made it a little easier for them to get buckets at times. But give them credit, they are a scrappy team, Nader is very good offensive player, hard to deal with.”

On if this team is where he wants them to be heading into UConn:

“I think we’ve made progress, I really do. It’s hard to tell with so many missed shots tonight. I do, I really believe we’ve made progress from three weeks ago.”

On C.J. Wilcox’s play up to this point in the season:

“C.J. is playing at a high level, he doing a lot of things, he goes out and grabbed 7 rebounds again tonight. He’s just doing a lot out there on the floor. When he defended Nader, he did the best job of anyone on him tonight. C.J. has really improved in all areas of the game, he’s not just one dimensional.”

On what allowed N Illinois to come back a little bit in the second half and make it a game :

“For whatever reason, we got out of sync during that period and sometimes it really tests your patience and your resolve if that ball continues to not go in the basket, and I think that led to us being out of sync in the second half.”