Live From DC: Q&A w/ Purdue's Scott Martin
March 19th, 2008
by Jon Teitel
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Live from Washington DC, CHN's Jon Teitel is covering the NCAA Tournament pod featuring Xavier/Georgia, Baylor/Purdue, West Virginia/Arizona, and Belmont/Duke. He'll be checking in periodically with player & coach interviews as well as news updates from the Verizon Center.
Tonight, Jon brings us an interview with Purdue freshman Scott Martin:
Q: What was your day like today?
A: Not much: wake up, practice, dinner.
Q: Your team (including you) is very young: what effect has that had on your team?
A: While we are young, we gained a lot of experience this year, which will help us a lot.
Q: What do you know about Baylor?
A: They are a very skilled/athletic team, and like us, they had a tense time on Selection Sunday waiting for their name to be called.
Q: You played on an AAU team with current teammates Robbie Hummel and E’Twaun Moore during high school: how did that experience help you during your first season together in college?
A: It helped a lot that we have spent so much time playing together, both at the high school and college level. Additionally, we have been able to gel with the entire team.
Q: What is Coach Painter like?
A: He is a great guy, and is great at getting us prepared for each game.
Q: What is Coach Martin like?
A: It is very fun playing for him: he really gets into it and gets fired up at practice.
Q: How much of your team’s success is based on the defensive end/creating turnovers?
A: We try to play pressure defense and force turnovers, and it has worked out pretty well.
Q: You have had a lot of single-digit losses, as well as a couple of overtime losses: what did your team learn from that?
A: We have tried to learn from all our close losses, and it is good to know that we have at least been close in a lot of games that we lost. Hopefully it will make us better able to handle close games in the NCAA Tournament.
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Jon attended college at the University of Pennsylvania (class of 1996) and law school at the University of Arizona (class of 2001), so his 2 favorite college teams are the Quakers and the Wildcats. While at Penn, Jon was the sports director of the school TV station, where he covered their 1994 and 1995 NCAA tournament appearances. He has also worked as a production assistant for ESPN, and a broadcast assistant for CBS during 2 different NCAA tournaments. He currently works as an investigator for the federal government in Washington, DC.
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