The guys do have a chip on their shoulder because they do watch TV and they do hear the things that are said about mid-majors and about our league stealing bids away from other people. That upsets us.

You can use it as a good thing because it's somebody we've never seen before. Or you can look at it and say, 'Hey, we're trying to concentrate on the conference.' We've got to prepare for somebody we don't know anything about. You can use it both ways.

You can't have excuses about (how) they're bigger than us. You've just got to play hard.

I didn't know if I was going to play him again, but I just decided to draw something on the board to start the half, and I just put his name up there. He looked at me like -- and I said you're playing, aren't you? And he said yeah.

I don't know if there is a better shooting team in the country.

He's the best one we've played. It isn't even close.

In the trenches, we were very, very good today.

In conference tournaments, people have to step up that normally don't step up. We had this happen.

It's very influential (in terms of the NCAA tournament).

It's not scripted. We got beat. Other people got beat. That's what makes this league beautiful.