The first step in trying to make sure people will come back out was hiring Tyrone Willingham, ... He has a great sense of humor, is a lot of fun to be around, and I think that comes across in the commercials. |
The good news is that we got back on the winning track. The other part of it is we still didn't do it for 40 minutes. |
The last 10 minutes, we got out of sorts. |
The one scenario that makes it simple is if we win. If we lose, let the chips fall where they may. You've had your opportunity. |
The team the last couple of years, when we were successful, we were blue collar, and when we weren't blue collar, we weren't successful. That's the same with this group. |
The way he carries himself, it's a model way others should look at. To do everything the right way, and to be named player of the year -- man, you can't script it any better than that, from a team perspective. |
Their first four or five shots were uncontested in the second half. If someone is not shooting the ball well, you can't say, 'Let's not guard him,' because they hit one or two, all of a sudden they get on a streak. We gave them too many good looks. |
Then in the upper class, it was Aaron Brooks and the Stewart twins and Marvin Williams and C.J. Giles. Wow, that's a lot to work with. If you get your fair share of guys, you're going to wind up pretty good. |
There should be an opportunity for (minorities) to get positions. |
There was a beauty to it. We're leading the nation in scoring, and we played a team that went to Cal and won, and that gives us problems. Yet we found a way to win (while) shooting 33 percent. I think that's a very positive thing. |
There was a time when he didn't play intensely. In terms of his ability, since the day he became eligible he has been our best all-around player. He's so selfless and such a team guy that he was fine deferring to his teammates to be successful. This year, he's come around more. |
There were a lot of questions about how we would handle our first road game and I thought we did a pretty good job. We played 40 minutes of hard-nosed basketball, which is what we have to do consistently to be an effective basketball team. |
There's always that adjusted RPI that the committee uses in the back room. |
There's no way you think you're going to lose that with 2.1 seconds to go. You think the game's over. |
There's no way you think you're going to lose that with 2.1 seconds to go. You think the game's over. The unheard of situation happened. ... What's important at this point is we don't take a nosedive. I've seen teams in this situation not recover from it. It's fine to grieve tonight. I'm going to grieve. |