They've been very fortunate to win a lot of basketball games here. I'm just extremely happy for them. |
They've been very fortunate to win a lot of basketball games here. I'm just extremely happy for them. They'll probably be asking me for a portion of my paycheck after their careers are over. I hope y'all acknowledge that I said 'after their careers are over,' so we don't have any problems. |
This league has evolved and hopefully we bring some credibility to it. And people will appreciate the quality of basketball we're playing, as well as the other two schools. |
This was a total team effort. We needed to play with composure. We took bad shots and had poor execution. (Oklahoma State) was a good basketball team. We needed to calm down and show patience. |
This was one of those days where we weren't playing really well and just brought it together at the right time. I give a lot of credit to our kids for staying with it. |
This was unfortunate for all parties involved. |
Those were some tough calls. I don't remember us getting the benefit. Even the last play (Rice's drive to the basket), there's contact driving to the basket and that's (no foul). We make contact and it's a foul. It?s unfortunate. We played well enough and I thought we would earn the respect of the officials, but maybe it didn't?t work out that way. |
Tim had to calm me down to put things in perspective with how far we had come that we were in that situation. |
To finish with just five losses is very pleasing. |
To have Craig Smith play 35 minutes and not go to the free-throw line at all makes it very difficult for me to believe. How does he play 35 minutes and not go to the free-throw line? Are you saying there was never no contact? |
Unfortunately, they were the last one standing. |
We all recognize that it increases your chances of having success in the tournament if you don't have to play four nights. If you can just play three nights, I think it improves your chances of success. That's our reward for playing well throughout the season and hopefully we can do that. |
We almost had to be perfect because we were down by so many. Truthfully, in the past, we have been [perfect], but we've got to learn from this. We created a couple of turnovers and we made a couple of great shots, but when we tried to get over the hump, we faltered a little bit. |
We are pieces of a puzzle, and each piece fits. When one piece doesn't work, we suffer as a team. The thing I appreciate about this club is that guys like Louis understand that. Louis' play has obviously been outstanding. We wouldn't be here without that. |
We came down here with a purpose, and right now we've placed ourselves in position to win the thing. Obviously we're very pleased with that, but our goal is not over yet. |