Alabama A&M will be here expecting to play a basketball game. I know some people might think that because it's a non-conference game, it might not be as big. But at this stage of the season, every game is critical. |
Are they talented? You bet they are. ... They are an awfully good basketball team. Do they wear you down? Yeah, most definitely. |
At some point, you have just got to tip your hat to the other team. The best team won tonight. |
For sure, the winner of this game will get in. The loser will have a long day Sunday. |
Getting to Friday will not be easy. |
He won't play this week. They won't give me a date (when he might return), but I know he won't play this week. It will apparently be week-to-week. |
Hopefully it does. I don't think it's going to hurt because if you are a basketball player or in the family of a basketball player, you will go and see these kind of movies. |
I don't know yet what we will do. Tune in Wednesday night and see. |
I just told the guys that you practice on this floor every day. No way can you let a team come in here and play harder than us. |
I know several people have talked about it, and we will wear them. Right now, though, we haven't gotten the jerseys yet. With today (Monday) being a holiday, I don't know. But if we get them, we will wear them. |
I think everybody was disappointed Friday. I don't ever want this program to be satisfied playing in the NIT. That is not our goal. But the NIT is a great tournament, the longest running tournament in college basketball. We're excited to be playing in it. There is always a positive in everything and the positive in this is that we get to play at home again. |
I think SMU is one of the top four teams in this league, especially talent-wise. They're getting better every game. I'm glad we've played them twice. |
I think we're still playing OK. We just don't have the depth at this point. But our effort has been tremendous. We competed very hard against Georgetown for 40 minutes when we had a chance to break a time or two. |
I think what this does is force us to win the (conference) tournament. That's the bottom line right now. But we can't be concerned with the big picture. We haven't been all year and we can't be now. We've just got to play one game at a time and not worry about anything else. |
I'd love to sit here Wednesday night and say we're 10-1 (in Conference USA), but it's going to be a challenge. I don't know if we're going to win or lose but I know we're going to lay it on the line for 40 minutes, just as we have for these first 23 games. |