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Texas Tech Post-Game Quotes

Kliff Kingsbury

On game:
"I think our defense and special teams carried us. The second half we were a little off on our offense, but what a win. There was a lot of motion and it was just a fun game."

Last drive of the 4th quarter:
"The biggest drive of the season thus far. That's what great teams do, go down when you have to. We kind of struggled in the start of the second half and came back with that drive."

On Adell Duckett:
"He is amazing, when have been waiting for him to play like that and he picked a great time to do it."

On defense:
"I thought our defense did a great job of taking away Mississippi's running game and they really made it one dimensional."

Head Coach Mike Leach

On game:
"This was a big win, Mississippi has a good team. There were two great quarterbacks featured today."

"I think the biggest thing was rising on all three sides of the ball. When you do that you are bound to play pretty well. We made key stops when they were close and key drives when we needed it."

"We did a good job pressuring Manning, but there were times I wished we would have played better as a team."

Clinton Greathouse (punter)

On his play today:
"I have struggled a little, but this whole week I concentrated on the drop and hurrying the kick instead of relaxing."

"All year I have practiced directional kicking and I surprised myself with the kicks that were dead in the corners."

Head Coach David Cutcliffe

"I could not envision out team doing anything else to put us in more of a hole early in the game."

"It is hard to win on the road, especially against a good team, and we committed too many errors."

"We have to play a lot better. We are not enough of a dominant team to be able to not play well in all three phases of the game. We just didn't do that tonight."

Quarterback Eli Manning

"We were backed up inside the ten-yard line several times and that makes it hard. It was another slow start for us and we had to pick it up in the second half, that is really hard to do against a quality team."

"We played hard, but we just didn't execute when we needed to and they did."

Receiver Chris Collins

"I though we played well tonight, but we could have played better. Texas Tech is a good team and today, they just out preformed us."

"We have a lot of things we can get better on, and we are going to have to get better at them to be able to beat good teams, like Texas Tech."