Flat-out, the last several years, being totally honest, we weren't good enough to advance. |
For 50 or 60 years, Kentucky has dominated this league. You can't expect every year for them to do what they have done. |
For a while there, everybody talked about if you really want to win at the college level, you have to have two or three pros on your team. I'm not so sure that's the case any more. |
For our basketball team, it was a tale of two halves. In the first half, our guys were very, very impatient on offense. We didn't have the ball movement and the player movement we needed to have. We had good ball movement and player movement and we shot 57 percent in the second half. If we would have played similar to that and rebounded like we did in the first half, it would have been a different game. We couldn't put it all together. |
For us, it was a game we had to grind it out. It wasn't always our style of play. ... Tonight was about consecutive stops and defending the 3-point line. They shot 19 percent from the 3-point line and 39 percent from the field. That was the difference. |
George Mason has been playing great. But I thought the key to the game was the 3-point line. That was one thing missing from what people were talking about. |
Georgia is a basketball team that's much improved from the 3-point line. There's no question that offensively they are a lot more explosive than they were a year ago. |
Get out there and make him a driver, let's see how many times he can finish going to the basket. We allowed him to do what he does well, and that's shoot the basketball. |
Glen Davis is to college basketball and to this league what Shaquille O'Neal is to the NBA. There's nobody quite like him. |
Going back and looking at the game, I don't think there's any question that they outplayed us. [South Carolina] outperformed us, dominated us in a lot of different areas. |
Going into this game, we don't have any excuses. We have enough to get out on the floor and dress. We're not going to be playing five against four. |
He (Green) is so quick and so fast, he can get out and pressure the ball on defense, and he gets the ball and just goes, which makes everyone play at a different speed. |
He carried our team offensively, no question. |
He carried our team offensively, no question. The thing that was so shocking was he only took 14 shots. The thing that was so impressive was he got to the free-throw line 22 times. |
He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3-point shots when they were trying to make a run. |