It comes with the territory. |
It hard to beat a team when you can't put the ball in the basket. |
It keeps my focus and my mind in the right place. It keeps things in perspective. It energizes me. It really defines who I am. |
It seemed like there was a lid on the basket. |
It seemed like there was a lid on the basket. We got open looks, but it didn't drop. It's awfully hard to win a game when you can't make shots. |
It was great to come home to a crowd like this, 12,000 screaming and yelling fans from the very start to the very finish. |
It was just a game where we didn't make shots. When you don't make shots regardless of what the defense is like, it's going to be tough to win. |
It wasn't really a change. No matter how many teams there are, it's always been a tough league. |
It?s been a process. You never get from one stage to the next without it being a process, and our confidence has grown with every victory and our poise has grown with late-game successes, with being able to execute. |
It's disappointing that everybody can't get to the tournament. We should all be (together). We're all in it together. But there's four teams that don't go, and that's a major motivation in itself. |
It's inevitable that success breeds success. I think the more you envision yourself doing good things and the more you have that mental diary of past successes ... the more successes you have, the more you can recall on those past victories and say I've been there and done that. That's been important to us. |
It's not an advantage or disadvantage, you just have to play. |
It's tough when you shoot 25 percent for the game. |
Maybe we put too much pressure on ourselves. And I think that's something we have to grow from because I don't think we played as confidently as we had. |
My hat is off to Pitt. Going undefeated at home is a tough thing to do. Losing just one game at home is a great record. Our guys came in here and played fearlessly. |