Our defense was better today than it has been all year. We just hunkered down and played good solid defense and rebounded well enough. |
They have a lot of things going for them. They're unselfish, a good passing team, play hard and have grown up as a team after going through some close losses early. But the whole way they've played great defense. |
They played really well and shot the ball better from 3-point range than they had been. |
Those guys were very, very aggressive out there. It really took us out of our offense. They are very aggressive defensively and do a good job of overplaying the ball. |
We had an hour-long discussion [Sunday night with Pederson] and I'm going to remain as coach. We're building this program and we finished in the top half of the league and did well in the tournament. We're pushing forward with good recruits coming in. |
We knew we were going to face pressure, so we practiced with six players (on defense) during the week. Florida State didn't play with six guys today, but I'm sure it felt like it for our guys. |
We love doing it, but we've made so many sacrifices to our wives, our families and our sleep patterns that we really want to be able to just do this full time. |
We think we've made some obvious and good progress. We'd like to make more, take bigger steps, and we're working on doing that. I'm excited about our program and looking forward to even better things for us, with the ultimate goal of not just making the NCAA tournament, but winning games there. |
We went through a tough stretch. Kansas didn't just cut our hair, they shaved our head. |
We'll try to learn from that experience, and we'll try not to repeat it. All the credit in the world goes to Kansas. |
We're not really going to pay attention to a lot of how the whole total looks, until we're all done. |
We've simplified things defensively. That has been a plus. But the biggest point of all this is the guys have taken more responsibility and helped each other. |
What I see in every game is teams that are really prepared. There are no easy outs. Most of the talk about this is blather and too much cough syrup sipping. |