If you look at the numbers, we almost played a perfect half offensively. It took that, because I thought Tennessee played at a high, high level (Saturday). I thought they played really good. Our guys just wanted it. |
If you look at the stats, you back off him a little bit and that's probably what Tennessee did. |
If you look over the (statistic) sheets of our last few games, it's been that way. We've worked on it all year, trying to get them to pass the ball and use each other. They really did that well tonight. This was a great team game. |
If you look strictly at the RPI, it looks good for us. |
If you put a gun to my head, I would say we would get four in. But there's a lot of basketball left, and the upsets will hurt a lot of at-large teams. |
In my heart, this is where I'm supposed to be. I told the players, I never pursue a job. I never have. I never will. I was just trying to do what was best for our staff and our basketball program. |
It really helps playing Drake. Only having one day to prepare, it was easier for us. I don't know if it was easy, but it was easier. |
It was a hell of a shot. A guy right in his face, fading away from five feet behind the three. I knew it was in when it left his hand. |
It was huge for us. |
It was very frustrating to see us play like that. I told our guys that I didn't know who that team was out there tonight ? four guys standing around while one guy went one-on-one. We didn't play our game. |
It wasn't our best possession. They switched out and we couldn't get it to him ... we panicked. |
It's a big win because of the way we won. That wasn't our style of game. I told them at halftime that we're not very good at football, but we've got to play football. We had to be strong and go at the basket. |
It's a lot of guys we had that were our top officials that just went away because they could make 6, 7, 800 dollars more going to a different league. Our league's gotten so much better. There's so much at stake. You don't want to, for a few extra thousand dollars, not do what's best for your league. |
It's been a great ride. On Selection Sunday our name pops up there, and six days later we're in the Sweet 16. Things change quick. But we're the same level-headed team that went into the tournament last weekend. |
It's great for the Colonial [Athletic Association] and great for the Missouri Valley that we're in this situation. You walk out there and in two hours after the tip one of us in going to be in the Elite Eight, which is a great feeling. It should be an evenly-matched game but I know we're going to have to play very well, especially in this environment. |