There's so much parity in this league. There's no way you can pick who is going to be the winner. |
These guys are products of those. I like to think this won't just be something that will be a one year flash and that's it. In the future I'd like to think we will see more players of this caliber. |
They are a big part of what we do. All the time they spend in the cold weather [waiting to get in the games], the rain, in the tents. And when we were losing, they were behind us. I felt like they've been such a big part of what we've done that they needed to be acknowledged as well. |
They are a very, very good basketball team. We look forward to the challenge. We want to play against the best competition. |
They are definitely not playing with a full complement of players. But we didn't take advantage of it [last week against WSU] when Derrick Low was out, so we can't approach it as who's not here. We have to worry about coming out and playing 40 minutes, which is what we did [Thursday night] against the Trojans [an 86-77 UW win]. |
They are playing like a team that believes they are going to win. |
They are probably the biggest challenge for us since we've been here at Washington. It's difficult to play against them because they are so hard to guard. |
They are very physical. They came after us. I give our guys credit for going after them. It was a street fight out there. |
They did a fantastic job at spreading the floor and getting Augustine isolated. We did not bring help quick enough and they were able to beat us. |
They did a good job of pressing up on him, trying to put a stronger guy on him. But what ended up happening is it just opened up everyone else. |
They expect to advance because they've done it before. |
They guard with a lot of intensity right now, kind of like Washington State. |
They have not contacted me, nor would I be interested. I haven't heard anything. That's just rumors. |
They were everything that we thought and have talked about all week. We could not let up at any point in the game. |
They were everything we thought and talked about all week. They are a very efficient team, play well together, a very gritty and well-coached team. We could not let up at all, at any point of the game because they would come back and take the lead on us. |