There's going to be some really good basketball here. |
They gave us a different look than what we usually see, but I thought they did an excellent job. |
They love the environment of the big game. Even when we were down, it's just a special feeling that this team has to never give up. It's sort of like the wind. You can't see it, but you sure can feel it. |
They made up for it from the foul line. |
They made us play real ragged. They changed their defense a lot. They were aggressive going to the boards and got the ball inside. We sputtered probably more than we sputtered all year out there today. We got things going when we had to and we got big rebounds when we had to. |
They make it sound like we're going to have coffins lined up at practice. It won't be that bad. |
They were packing it back inside pretty good. We normally like to look inside, but sometimes you just have to take the outside shot. Ivory hit some big baskets that really helped open things up for us. |
They're about the only good team that's not (in our bracket). They definitely deserve to be a No. 1 seed, and maybe somewhere down the road we will get to play. But there's a lot of great teams. I just want us to keep playing the way we've been playing, and hopefully things work out where we'll be able to be in Boston. |
This could very easily be the national championship game. There will be a lot of talent on that floor. |
This is one area that should've been changed a long time ago. |
This is the 11th time in the last 13 years we've played for an ACC championship. I wish we'd won all those, but just being there is an honor. |
This is the second year we've had to do this, and this year we are the No. 1 seed yet we're having to play a team like Vanderbilt on the road in the second game. |
This is what you dream about as a player and a coach. I've been coaching 31 years, and this is what gets your heart pumping and your blood boiling to be in an environment like this. |
To be honest with you, today I wish we had moved it to the Smith Center because I don't like to say no to all these people that need tickets. My cell phone, my e-mail, my office phone, my house phone -- every one of them right now has messages from people wanting tickets, and I have no tickets. |
To play slow would not be the thing to do with her. |