I've been at Oklahoma for 12 years, but I don't remember many times that I've left the court where I was embarrassed as I was tonight. |
I've had some great conversations with these guys and I'm not trying to talk them in or talk them out of anything. I'm just trying to get to know them and trying to do that in the best way possible. You have to respect these kids. I'm also dealing with it on the other side (in Oklahoma), and it is sensitive. |
If you told me before the game we would have a 29-20 rebound advantage and shoot 54 percent (28-for-52), I thought we would have won. It felt like they shot 105 percent. |
In order to say you got lucky, well you've got to be good enough to get lucky first of all. We won the game, so give Oklahoma some credit. They could have won it, but we won it. That's why you give our kids a lot of credit. |
Indiana is one of those special places where you say 'basketball', and Indiana is an automatic word association. Every coach sees it as a great basketball state with tremendous high school coaches and players, and we will do our best to keep those players in the state. |
Iowa State deserved to win. They out-played us for 39 minutes. We had no answer for Blalock and Stinson. |
Iowa State deserved to win. They outplayed us for 39 minutes. |
Is that good or bad? The league is so talented, I don't know what advantage it gives you. There are about four or five teams in this league that are good enough to win it. |
It felt more like 105 percent. |
It is a little bit embarrassing to stand up here and be asked about NCAA violations, but you also have to realize we're human and we make mistakes. I made a mistake but we've corrected it and moved forward. |
It makes everyone better. It's like in football -- if all you can do is run, they just stick nine guys in the box. This year we have a perimeter and a post attack. It's a lot easier to watch. |
It seems this topic comes up every year on the conference call since Syracuse won the national championship. We see a lot of zone for obvious reasons -- because we have a hard time making 3s. |
It takes time. It's like stock. You go up and down with it, but if it's solid and it's a good stock, it will pay off. This is a good investment. For this community and this county, I think it is absolutely the right thing to do. |
It was a crazy game, that's why they call it Bedlam. We missed a lot of free throws and had opportunities. Both teams deserved to win this game. We had adversity at every turn and played to win. |
It was a crazy game. I don't know how else to explain it. Hey, that's why they call it Bedlam. |