Billy was better than half of the team. |
Everyone contributed tonight as a team and I couldn't be more proud of how our guys competed tonight. It was a hard fought physical basketball game tonight and our guys found a way to dig it out. |
He went up over everybody and came down like, 'We're back.' It settled us. |
He'll be trying to rip our face off. All the friendship, all the love will be going out the window for those two hours. |
I don't see it helping either side because I haven't been around their program for four years. I'd be shocked if he had any idea what we were doing or knew anything about our personnel before this week. If anything, we might have a slight advantage because we get to see them a lot on television. Our games aren't really televised that often. |
I don't think either one of us like the fact that someone's season is going to be over after this thing. I do know one thing about Billy. He's going to be trying to rip our face off. All the friendship, all the love and all that is going out the window for those two hours. It's going to be very, very competitive. |
I don't think either one of us liked ... the fact that somebody's season is going to be over after this game. But it is what it is. We don't control who we play in the NCAA tournament. |
I feel very fortunate to win the award. There are some great coaches in this league...Basketball is a team game and any award that I win is a direct reflection on how hard our team works. |
I felt very confident and we threw a couple more guys out there and they turned things back around and more players came in and took it even farther. |
I have been blessed to be associated with some unbelievable people. I've needed that help as a coach. |
I knew we were going to be ferocious. I knew we were going to play hard. I just hoped it was well enough to put ourselves in a situation to win. We couldn't. It wasn't because of a lack of effort. It was because Florida's just better. |
I know everybody likes to make it out that you get judged by your success in the NCAA tournament. He's had some success. He will have that again. I hope it's not (Thursday). |
I never dreamed that Rich (Law) would be able to play as long as he did and as well as he did, it was great. |
I sat there for the next three months. |
I think the NCAA has a funny sense of humor with regards to pairing us up with Florida. |