It's a new season. There's always a possibility that seniors will start thinking about life after basketball. |
It's a tough way to go out. |
It's encouraging to hear him say those things. I know he is working hard to build community support for the department. |
Kansas did an excellent job of pushing the ball up the floor. The difference in their break and most other teams' is that their big guys really run the floor. So we gave up too many fast-break points and were dominated on the glass. |
Marcus, to me, looked like his shoulder was bothering him a little bit. He didn't look like Marcus. |
Mentally, he's in a good place. He's in no hurry. He's on NBA teams' radar, but right now he's on track to be here three years. |
My personal belief is that his communication with agents affects how he plays. I won't elaborate any further on it, but he and I have talked about that. But I certainly think it affects how he plays in certain games. |
Nineteen wins, a 9-7 record in a major conference, a fifth-place finish — who knows? I think the team has done more than we were expected to early on. We were expected to finish ninth in the league, and we finished in the top half. We certainly have to be proud of that accomplishment. |
Pray . . . I'm going to start there. You've just got to compete. I guess if I had to wish for just one thing to occur with our guys, it's just that we compete . . . It's going to be a physically played basketball game; that's just the nature of how they play. We just have to bow our backs and be ready to respond to that. |
Roby had a difficult time all night. I thought they did an excellent job in guarding Roby -- being physical with him and creating issues with him getting open and getting good looks. Most of his shots that he took were under duress, and we ended up with Marcus Hall having to over-dribble more because guys couldn't get freed up. |
Sometimes what happens is the media may throw that information out there and start believing that's the case. But I think anyone who has watched the Big 12 closely realizes it's as good a conference as there is. |
That's been a topic of discussion for the last couple of years. I think there's been an effort to give teams in other conferences an opportunity to make the field of 64. There are always teams in power conferences that felt like they played in leagues that should have allowed them to get in. |
That's not something at the forefront of Roby's thinking right now. |
The thing you learn from winning is how to win, and they are a very disciplined basketball team. I think if you look at the guys that make big plays for them, they are the guys who have been pretty consistent all season long. |
The toughest factor is the caliber of players they've had for many, many years. It's been a very difficult place, not only for Colorado but for a lot of people, to play. |