I told everyone to treat this like your senior year because you don't know what next year will bring. To be in this situation and have this opportunity is a real blessing for us all. |
I was able to get Chris on a curl. Major Wingate [15 points] set him a pretty good screen and opened him up just enough. |
I was never referring to the city of Memphis or the players. I should have used better terminology. I love the city and the program. |
I was pretty sure I knew where Chris was going. |
It was kind of funny, buttons were flying everywhere. We all laughed and gave him a Gatorade bath in there. |
It was more than a statement game. It was a championship game for us. We wanted to control our destiny. |
It's amazing. People are starting to treat it like a football game. Girls are saying they have to buy some new clothes or a new shirt for the game, and they're talking about how early they have to get to the game. It's becoming an all-day event now. |
It's great to be such a high seed. Now we need to go play that way. |
No team is 100 percent right now. That's the part of the game you have to battle through. It's about mental toughness. |
Nobody expected us to get this far. It hurts now because we think we should've made the Sweet 16, but we accomplished a lot. |
That's how each opponent is going to view us now going down the stretch. It's down to the wire for a lot of people, and they need a big win. We've got to realize we need that win just as bad, and we're going to go out and compete as hard as we can. |
The first option was Andre [Patterson]. |
This game had become an event. The students have been talking about this like it was a football game. |
This is the most special place on the road for me. In my mind, I know that I've won at Kentucky. It's something that goes on the career resume. |
This will benefit us in the long run in the tournament. We've faced every type of adversity throughout the season. We've been down before and lost leads. Now, we're ready for tournament play. |