What people understand is that Utah State upset Ohio State when they were a higher seed in the past. They took to Kansas to the wire and almost beat Kansas a few years ago. Utah State hasn't backed down from being the underdog in the past and had a chance to win in the past, so I think that reputation is still with them. |
What those five guys have is a lot of versatility, ... When you look at our program and our philosophy, I think those are the kinds of guys we've tried to recruit, guys who have a lot of versatility about them. |
What you hope at this point is that we don't take a nosedive. I've seen teams in these situations not recover from it, and we've got to make sure that we bounce back. |
When almost half your team is new faces, it's very beneficial [to get away]. |
When Mike is hitting, no only does the defense have to extend, but he usually has the tallest guy on him. So now it creates driving lanes for some of our other people. |
When other teams have played deliberate basketball against us, we have been able to force our will upon them. We weren't able to do that tonight. |
When someone is playing solely for individual awards and accolades, it's not as special when they [get them]. When you are working together as a group and as a team and then you receive those awards, you are just so proud of them. |
When something like that happens out of the clear blue and has not been a pattern, you just have to believe it's just one of those nights when the ball didn't go down. |
When they are turning turnovers into points, that's difficult to overcome. |
When you are as athletic as Bobby is and you depend on that so much to do what you do on the floor and when that's taken away from you a little bit, it makes things a little more difficult. |
When you have a situation where you're not going to make the NCAA tournament without winning the conference championship, you have to get everyone on the same page before you get on the floor. Everyone has to really believe it can happen. You have to win one; then your confidence grows a little bit. You win two, and then you start to build a little swagger. |
When you lose three straight games, you try to find answers to halt it. I think we are in a position where we are not a lock by any stretch. |
When you talk about maybe someone's mannerisms or maybe the way they walk, something like that, that can be pretty funny. Once you start to get into some type of issue that a person is dealing with off the floor, that may be when you cross the line. |
When you've got that combination, that's something special that's going to help your basketball team. Someone like that raises everyone else up. |
Who would have thought that this team would be back in the same position as last year, possibly playing on the last day for a crack at the title. Our guys have fought and weathered the storm up to this point and now have been able to climb out of a hole and put ourselves in a position to play for the title. |