A.J. (goalie Andrew Jackson) played really well and we had a lot of chances, but we took a lot of bad penalties. But I'm not one to blame the ref.

For the first 35 minutes, that's as well as we've played in a long time.

For them to shoot as well as they did and play as well as they did we couldn't beat them. We needed to play great and I thought we played well. We needed them to have an off night and they didn't.

He's one of the best shooters in college basketball and he's a clutch player. He rose to the occasion tonight like I knew he would.

I hope Razorback Nation will support an old Arkansan.

I'm really happy with the way we all competed and if we remain confident, work on little things like taking care of our own end, then wins will come.

They (Western) were just flying to the glass and that's normally how we play. For whatever reason, we didn't get after it like I thought we would.

It's going to happen someday. I told our guys, why not us and why not this year?

It was encouraging that we did a nice job on the glass but at the same time when you get to crunch time, those (mistakes) are the things that win you the game or lose you the game. We just had stupid turnovers the last three or four minutes.

They're focused. The more important thing, they're confident. They really believe they can beat Memphis. Now we understand we have to play a near-perfect game and Memphis has to be a little off their game. If that happens, why not.