Personally, I think we'll be pretty good. I think we're a defensive, stopping team, I think we'll score more points than a lot of people think that we will, but I mean I think we'll be pretty good. |
Some of those players in New York have made a name for themselves in those parks and I guess Jo played pretty good against them. You know how street ball is, there's no referees. It's a tough game. So when he came back from there, his confidence was through the roof. He was a tougher player. He was ready for anything. |
That was the plan for the whole game, but we just didn't do it. We tried, but they played good defense. Once we got it worked out, we kept going at it and going at it, so it finally worked. |
That would make it that much easier for us to advance to the next round. It would be like home-court advantage for us. So we need to try to win out and do the best we can so we can make it to Jacksonville and make it easier for ourselves. All of us want to finish strong and wrap it up. That would be huge. |
That's just how it is; that's how people are, how they think. If we go out and lose in the first round (in the NCAA Tournament), everybody will say, 'I told you so.' If we go to the Sweet 16, everybody will be surprised, like they were at the beginning of the season. |
That's one of the great things about our team. Anybody can step in and score the points for us at any time. It's just somebody else's turn on any given night. . . . We were smart enough to pick up what they were doing. We knew once they started doubling (down low), our guards would be wide-open. |
That's the guy that talked all that crap about us in the Alligator before. That's him right here. |
That's the way it is in practice. Every time he misses a 3-pointer, the coaches keep passing it to him until he makes it. We want him to keep shooting. |
The best part is nobody is jealous. Because if we keep winning, the attention goes to all of us, anyway. |
The Big East, the best conference in all of the land, won't be there. We've shown what we can do. |
The last time I did something like that was in high school. |
The thing about our guys is they don't need the money. |
There was nobody talking to us when the season started. Now look at this. |
There's no guilt at all. Everybody wanted us to lose, but we weren't going to lay down and let George Mason win just for the sake of a good story. We weren't going to be like Glory Road. We didn't want to be the team in the movie that lost to the underdog. |
They have a strong front court, but they also have fast guards who can shoot the three and penetrate down the lane. |