This team is probably the loosest I've played on. Coach does a great job of keeping us loose. We play baseball at practice. He dances, claps, sings, and we all rally around that. There was no tension around the team. |
This was history. We're living it. When you talk about the Final Four, you have to talk about us making the Final Four. We changed the face of college basketball. Unfortunately, it had to come to an end. |
Tony knew we had his back. We told him to forget about it. New game, five minutes left. |
We changed the face of college basketball. |
We didn't come here to take pictures. |
We didn't come this far just to settle. |
We didn't come this far just to settle. Nobody on this team wants to settle for the Elite Eight. |
We go out there with no worries. That's how we play. |
We have fun with it. The team loves it. It's a way to get away from basketball. It's what we do as a team to get closer. |
We knew they were a young team and all season they've had a problem with turnovers. We wanted to force those freshmen to make some decisions. That's what we did and that's what got our juices flowing. |
We knew they were a young team, and they've had problems all season with turnovers. We got some turnovers and turned them into easy baskets. That got our adrenaline and our juices going, and we just fed off it. |
We knew we were playing a tournament team. Coach was saying, 'That's a Sweet 16 team you just beat.' He kept saying that. I never imagined we would see them in the NCAA tournament, and we would be in the same bracket. |
We know we match up well with this team. It's going to be an interesting game. |
We never saw ourselves as the underdog. That's the thing everybody got wrong; we saw everybody we beat as being in trouble once they faced us. |
We pride ourselves on our defense; that comes first. We knew they were a young team and have had problems with turnovers. We wanted to force them into making some decisions. |