It gives a team a lot of confidence. They might feel like they have momentum. You just feel good when you come off playing really well. |
It hurts not to win the game knowing you had it. There's no reason we shouldn't have (won it). |
It's kind of like a revenge thing. Yeah, we beat them twice in a row, but they beat us last. We want to get that back. It worked out perfectly with this being the last game of the year. I think it will be a great game. |
It's really disappointing to not make it to the finals and not have a chance to win it. We all felt that this was our tournament. |
Our timing was kind of off at times. We'll work through it and get through it. It's just like a little bump. It's really, in my opinion, not really a big deal -- I'm not sure what Coach G said. We'll bounce right back from it. |
Some people went home, and I went out with friends. All of us left campus, and I just knew that I could not wait to get back to practice. |
That's our strength. We didn't have many fast-break points that I can remember in the first half. We had to take advantage of our transition game. That's where we score a lot. Coach told us at halftime we have so much depth and we have to play hard enough to use it. |
They knocked down almost every shot they took. They did a great job of moving the ball, going inside and just mainly knocking down the shots and knocking down big shots when it counted. |
They went on a run, but we had to calm down and figure out what would work for us. We started going back inside. |
They're really active, and they like to put pressure on the ball, but you've still got to remember that it's just a zone, and all zones have weaknesses. You can penetrate it, skip the ball in and move it into the gaps -- you can get open shots. |
Those are two great players. They both deserve it. |
We can't sleep on them; we have to play hard. |
We don't know much about what's going on because we've been on the road. We're not focused on any of that whatsoever. I will say [a championship] definitely would bring something positive to the campus. |
We expected them to come back. |
We had to calm down and figure out what was going to work for us, so we started to work it inside, use our penetration, and then we went on a run. |