They do a great job with their presses, their traps. They're extremely aggressive. They get out in transition probably better than anybody in the country, and they're really well-balanced. |
They do a great job with their traps. I know we'll be a lot better (in the future) for this game. |
They just continued to gain more confidence the longer they played with us. |
They went small and spread us out. |
They're extremely athletic and they do a great job with their traps and presses. They are extremely aggressive and they get out in transition better than anybody in the country. And they are really well balanced. You can't just shut down one person. |
They're similar to us in that usually if you take away the outside game, you win. Or if you take away the inside game, you win. But with them and with us, we have great balance and an inside-outside attack. |
They're the most athletic team in the country. |
This is a time for celebration for our team. But there are a lot of tough things going on campus. We don't know much about it. We've been out of town. But when you come back from winning your regional and getting a trip to the Final Four and the headline in the paper is about (the lacrosse team), it's kind of tough. But we just have to focus on our task at hand. |
This team has always played together well. They've always been unselfish. It starts with the senior leadership. They could take 20 shots a game but they don't, and they make sure everyone gets involved. |
This was a really good game for us to play. Obviously we like to score in transition, and Auburn did a great job just walking the ball up the court and slowing down the tempo. |
This was by far the most physical game, and you can't just turn it on in one game. |
This was by far the most physical game, and you can't just turn it on in one game. You have to prepare for that, I think, every single day in practice. I know that we will be better because of this game. |
This was one of our best defensive efforts, really of the year. |
Those are two very emotional games for us, big rivals for us. |
Those two numbers stood out for me. |