They've always been more than fair to me, so I don't expect anything other than that they're going to be more than fair. I want to be the coach here. I think they want me to be the coach here. Let's just go. |
This could have been a momentum builder going into the conference tournament, but we couldn't rebound ... If we could have gotten one more rebound in the last five minutes of the game, we could have won. |
This has been an unbelievable year, no matter what happens. I did a better job of coaching last year than this year. What we went through last year, we can laugh, but I will not watch a tape from last year. |
This is a hard game to prepare for. They run too much stuff, they hold the ball. Our guys, they have no idea they're not going to run with us. |
This is a kid who has great confidence in his ability and is a tough-nosed player. He is a mentally tough kid. In the state finals [when Allen was a senior at Booker T. Washington High School], his team was down by 10 points. Andre had four steals, about 12 points, and won the game. We hoped he could do that for us and he did that today. |
This is another great opportunity to showcase our program, our University and our city to the nation, |
This is what Conference USA should be in every game and every building. This is a basketball environment. |
This was not our best performance. We just did stuff that I haven't seen since the first of the season. We picked a day to miss 15 one-footers. |
This wasn't about money because if it was I wouldn't be standing here. You're sitting here and you have a staff and their families, and then you have your other family -- those 13 or 14 basketball players. And at the end of the day there are a lot of young people pinning their hopes on what we do. We have a good group of young people, and I'm ecstatic about coaching them. |
Those guys on TV and radio have to come up with some opinions and some upsets. |
To have that kind of energy after that Texas game and to have one day in between shows that we bounce back quickly. We did what we were supposed to do. All I was concerned with was how we guarded, and I thought we were tremendous. |
Twenty-one turnovers and we got beat to every ball again. I'm just worried because it's not hitting home. We went after balls with one hand. They will run a [sprint drill in practice], which is a killer, for each one-handed catch they made. It's got to stop. |
We are chasing greatness with this team. |
We created some turnovers and that's why we had a 20-point lead. Today we were ready to go so they never really had a chance. |
We had to perform for two months. We had no room for error. |