Dwaine Knight, UNLV Head Coach – First After Day Two 

On how the team responded to having to finish the first round this morning before playing its second…
"It was a tough day yesterday. To start, stop is never easy. We'd go out three different times, get ready to go and then stop. Then back in the vans, think we're going to go again and then stop. That's very, very difficult but there is nothing you can do with weather. It's just part of the game, but today the flow of the game was like it should be, and the golf course was great. I thought our guys hung in there yesterday on a very, very tough day and very short sleep last night and back out. I'm real proud about how they responded today. You can get caught up in being tired and things not quite going right, but they just came out and played some golf. I'm real proud of them." 

On being successful on No. 17… 
"It's a hard shot and you just have to really hit a really good shot there and we seemed to have pulled it off yesterday and today. The golf course, you can accept and challenge but you can really pay the price also. The first two days here we've been able to make some birdies where some other teams kind of struggled through that."

On Shintaro Ban play…
"He's a dandy. Last summer he won the California Amateur and the Northern California Amateur and an amateur hadn't done that in a hundred years. He's really got some pedigree with him. He's really a good little player and nice to see have a good week this week."

Ryan Hybl, Oklahoma Head Coach – Second After Round Two

On today's round…
"Today was one of the better days we've ever had. Unfortunately we had a great opportunity that we kind of squandered coming down the stretch. Number 17 is a crazy hole and we made a seven and an eight and that cost us big time." 
 
On adjusting from day one weather to day two weather… 
"That's where our guys did the best job. Yesterday we only played 8-10 holes and they did a great job because we were even-par when we left in the vans last night after all the mess that we went through yesterday. I thought that was a great job. We came out here today and started on 18, one, and two, which are some of the easier holes. We got off to a really good start and we just carried that momentum and when we flipped over to the new 18 we got off to a great start. As good of a start that you will ever find in college team golf. Our guys did a great job. We still had really nice rounds. It's unfortunate we had some big numbers but number 17 is going to do it and it happened to us today."
 
On tomorrow's game plan…
"We're just going to keep executing the way we're shooting the golf course. That's where we gave away shots today, we just didn't execute and didn't hit the proper shots. We'll go back to the drawing board but at the end of the day it's the same game plan and same attitude. We're going to try and go win a golf tournament, that's what we're going to do."

Nick Clinard, Auburn Head Coach – Tied for Fourth After Day Two

On the day…
"I think we were 15 back when we tee'd off, because there is not a lot of wind today and it was warmer and there is a lot of birdies to be had out there. We got off to kind of a shaky start and couldn't get anything going but the guys showed a lot of grit and a lot of grind out there and we were able to get a couple birdies coming in and shoot four-under."

On going forward to Sunday…
"It depends on the weather. If its calm and stays soft then, obviously, we have to keep the gas down, keep making birdies and if it gets windy, then we need to do a little better job managing our games."

Chris Zambri, Southern California Head Coach – Sixth After Day Two

On Justin Suh's finish…
"He's doing great. I love that he made a birdie here after a tough hole. Seventeen is just a bear. It sounds like he made all the right decisions but just didn't quite execute on the third shot and that cost him. It's a bummer but it's a good test."
 
On Justin Suh coming into the Championships…
"Coming into this week I knew he'd be in good shape out here because of the fact that he controls his ball and that he's a good iron player. There are a lot of spots out here where you've got an iron that can get close. I thought this course would set up for him really well."
 
On Justin Suh's improvements from last year…
"I think that he's more skilled mentally now than he's ever been. He thinks clearer out here than a lot of guys. He sometimes thinks of stuff that we're not thinking. Most of it, if not all of it, has proved out to be right." 
 
On the team's game plan…
"We had a different one for every hole. We want to be aggressive when we're supposed to be aggressive and play the right shot off the tee to give each person a chance to make the best score on the hole. I don't know how to describe 18-holes worth of strategy, there's something on every hole."

Chuck Winstead, LSU Head Coach – Tied for Seventh After Day Two

On how the team responded to having to finish the first round this morning before playing its second…
"These guys are mentally tough and they proved it again today. Getting up, as you said, early, but we came back out and had a good hour and a half right before dark yesterday and came back out for that two or three holes and really messed it up. We had a triple bogey on 17. We had a double bogey on 17. Then, true to their form, they rallied. They got back in the second round and really played some outstanding golf. Hopefully we can carry that momentum into the third round."
 
On what the team needs to do Sunday to keep the momentum going…
"Each day is almost its own animal. The weather today, obviously is perfect. You kind of get in a comfort zone if you're hitting the ball well that you can get out there and score. And you're seeing that across the board with the field, but we know if the wind blows 10 or 15 mph, it's a completely different type of golf course and type of day. We're going to have to be ready for both types of situations. If we have good weather, we're going to have to be ready to make birdies. If not, we're going to have to be able to make some pars and hang in there."
 
On the team's play on the back nine…
"I don't know exactly, I'm not looking at the scoreboard right now, but I want to say we were probably 12 under on the back nine across the board. You've got Phillip Barbaree, he played great today. Sam [Burns] and Brandon [Pierce] as you said, they played really good."

Scottie Scheffler, Texas – First After Day Two

On what was working in his game today…
"I got it around pretty good today. I didn't really hit it too great but I made some nice putts that got my round going."

On how the course played today… 
"Fresh greens in the morning definitely helped. When we got out and started on 10, the greens were really fresh and I played the par fives really well and that was probably the key for me; taking the opportunities when I got them."

On preparing to maintain that lead tomorrow… 
"I got some things I have to work on. I'll hit some wedges and the weather's supposed to be a little different the next two days so I'll just get mentally prepared for that."

On finding a rhythm on the course…
"It was kind of a weird round. The first wave we played four holes, waited an hour, played another hole, waited another hour and a half then played six more and finished up this morning. I was able to get into more of flow today."

Braden Thornberry, Ole Miss – Tied for Second After Day Two

On his second round…
"I was a little shaky at the start at one and two. Through those holes you want to be one-under. From there I started to put it together. I think I made five birdies in maybe a seven-hole stretch. I really got going, got to -10 on the tournament and then I started to leak a little bit. Not too bad overall." 

On his game plan for Rich Harvest Farms…
"You have to hit fairways out here and when you do miss, you have to hope you get a good enough lie to hit it up around the green. You need an understanding where you can get up-and-down, where you can't, when it's worth it and when it's not. Just have to play what the course is giving you."

Matthias Schwab, Vanderbilt – Tied for Second After Day Two

On his round…
"I thought I was hitting the ball solid, but I didn't get them as close to the pins as yesterday. I had a lot of 30 and 40-footers and was trying to two-putt from there. I thought I hit them okay and putted okay. I am pretty happy with the score. It's a hard course, I knew that going in. Some of the holes are really tough and you just want to make par or bogie and a few other holes are pretty getable. You just have to know that before the round and before each hole. Sometimes par is a good score."  

Justin Suh, Southern California – Tied for Second After Day Two

On his round and triple bogey on No. 17…
"Seventeen was playing tough and I don't think I hit a bad shot, it was just a bad number. Overall, I was pretty happy with the round. 

"Last year I was in the same spot and I think I am more prepared than last year. I think just staying leveled, emotionally, and take it one shot at a time. I just need to stay patient. I have been conscious of my breathing. That's the mentality I have had all week. When you hit a bad shot, you just deal with it and embrace that bad shots are going to happen. It's not the end of the world. Besides 17, I thought it was a really solid round."

On being in contention at the midway point…
"It's definitely a nice position, to be in contention. Motivation wise, I am trying to keep the same mindset as day one; to play smart golf."

Hunter Shattuck, Baylor – Tied for Sixth After Day Two

On today's round…
"So I didn't really hit my driver that great, but my irons were really good and I probably made more putts today than I ever have. I was just riding the momentum with the putter and birdies just started going in there towards the end."
 
On how the course is playing…
"It's definitely a different course today than it was yesterday, but it's really fair. It's really good. Like I said, I'm not really hitting it that great off the tee, so I feel it will play much easier from the fairway consistently, but it's great. It's such a fun course. Everything's just in perfect shape."

On finishing up the first round this morning before playing the second round…
"I don't think necessarily the timing of it had an issue, it'd where I started. I started on 17, which is probably the hardest hole I've ever played. I made a smooth double [bogey] there to start the day. That was the only tough part. Waking up at 4 a.m. wasn't very fun, but once we got out here, it was fun. I don't necessarily think the restart had any effect on me, except for the hole I was starting on."

Brandon Pierce, LSU – Tied for 19th After Day Two

On his performance today…
"I tripled 17 early this morning when I was finishing up [the first round]. I got to that hole [in the second round] and missed the fairway and ended up making bogey there, lipped out a short par putt. I took that as a win. Then I birdied 18, to make the turn at one under, and I knew the front nine's pretty gettable if you can hit the ball off the tee well. I just went out with that type of confidence, just trying to hit the fairway. Once I did that, everything else took care of itself."

On finishing up the first round this morning before playing the second round…
"Obviously we didn't have as much time to warm up as we normally do. I woke up at 3:45 a.m. I probably got five hours of sleep, which isn't too bad. Definitely having to start up that early and being stiff and not being able to warm up as much probably affected me a little bit, but as soon as I got into the second round, I got back into it."