Sometimes, it's about players. The makeup of these guys, they've come into the season and played unselfish. We're fortunate to be 12-0 but at the same time have done the things that we needed to do offensively and defensively to win those games. |
Stan has done a great job. People don't understand how hard this league is. Arkansas' loss at Ole Miss was not a bad loss. Ole Miss is a very good, well-coached team. |
Statistically, that was the key to the game. We shoot 49 percent on the road, you're not going to get much better than that. |
Tennessee has been hardened by all those losses in the past, and now Bruce has brought in hope. |
That takes a kid with unbelievable character. It takes a kid who cares about the team, a kid who wants to win. |
That's a really, really interesting question because I've always been a big, big believer that things that have happened in the past, negatively or positively, don't affect your future. I believe I have to work harder now as a head coach, and what I mean by that is we've got to try to continue to recruit good, quality kids. |
That's generally a recipe for disaster, but because we defended the 3-point line that gave us an opportunity. |
That's generally disastrous for a first half. |
That's just what they want to do. I think they're having a lot of fun; I think they're different types of kids. They're not prepared to make the next step right now. They want to be here, they want to play, they want to be together was a group. They want to stay to play together as a team. |
That's one of the things we talked about with our guys. How are we going to respond when we don't shoot well? Here was a night where we didn't shoot the ball well. This was a game where we had to grind it out and find a way to win. |
That's pretty impressive. He has a good understanding of how to get fouled. |
That's something we'll have to look at on film. You look at the last two minutes of the game but sometimes you don't look at how it got to that point. The offensive rebounds Tennessee had in the second half really hurt us. |
That's the one thing that's been great about our basketball teams over the years -- they've earned their way in. Now, we've got to make something happen. |
That's the one thing we don't know. That's the big question right now is this something that gets prolonged into the end of February, the beginning of March. Right now, we're hopeful that it's not going to be that situation. |
That's what we're trying to build here at Florida. That's what we're trying to create. It has to start somewhere. |