He was the guy who put us over the top. He brought us the combination of size, talent, competitiveness and a very high basketball IQ. |
He's a force. We were willing to give up some inside points as long as we were not giving up 3-pointers. We did all that we needed to do to win. |
I thought we had the game in control. We were in position to make plays and we didn't make plays. |
If it's not the biggest (win for me), it's certainly right there with the biggest. |
If it's not the biggest win for us, it ranks right up with the biggest. |
If this wasn't the biggest win in school history, it's right up there with any of them. It was fantastic. To prepare to win, carry out the game plan to perfection, and actually win the game, it was like winning a championship. |
It's a pretty tough bracket. We have a veteran team. We'll be fine. |
There's no happy-to-be-there attitude about this at all. We're going into this to win. I think we're talented enough and deep enough to play with anybody in the country. |
There's no substitute for good shooting, particularly 3-pointers. We were working the ball and pushing the pace to get good shot attempts. And we made them. |
This is a bigger game than most because of the historic and traditional aspect of their program. They are one of the storied programs of college basketball. |
We didn't want to be co-champs. Deep down, you want your first conference championship to be an outright championship. We controlled that by winning and Washington losing. |
We don't have the cushion any more. We had it ... then we lost it. |
We played very well today and we knew we'd have to. We presented this to our players as a school with NCAA tradition, and we told them that this was a good team that was very athletic. |
We've done a pretty good job of getting the first run of the game and of the first half this year. |