If we rally together and play the way we’re capable of playing, we can maybe win the whole SEC.

I never in my life thought I’d end up in the state of Minnesota. It never crossed my mind coming to Minnesota.

Nobody can run with our big guys.

My knee wasn’t that bad the second half of last season. It was a factor, but it wasn’t as much of a factor as you would think. It was more of a mind thing.

You make contact first and it’s a lot easier to defend him. I kind of knocked him off balance. We did a pretty good job on him.

It was crazy to lose to them twice. I never lost to them until this year. Twice in one year, we felt like that was pretty bad.

We don’t have anybody on this team who believes they’re the superstar. We feel like we’re all equals.

It’s human nature. They try to protect themselves from being embarrassed.

I’ve never seen Corey shoot like this, never in my life not even in a pickup game. Corey was feeling it today, he was hot. He played great.

We’re a defensive team. I think we can stop anybody.

There’s no guilt at all. Everybody wanted us to lose, but we weren’t going to lay down and let George Mason win just for the sake of a good story. We weren’t going to be...

Everyone is psyched about getting in them. Everybody wants to play in them.

We might not lose to anyone if everybody comes back. I might be going outside of myself right now, but I think if everybody came back we could be one of the best teams in...

I think if everyone comes back next year, it could be scary. We might not lose a game. We might go down as one of the best teams in history.

Everyone has been pulling against us. We’re used to it. From day one, nobody expected us to be where we are now. Everyone expected us to be in the NIT and now we’re in the...

We felt like we let those two (games against South Carolina) get away. We’ve got to come back in more focused (today).

He’s one of the best in the business. He does a great job. He makes corrections sometimes when the coaches make mistakes. He’s pretty good.

Everybody is eager to play defense this year. Everybody wants to get stops, everybody wants to press, everybody wants to do all that stuff, there’s a lot of pride on defense.

A lot of us want to prove ourselves against bigger teams.

I’ve never seen Corey shoot like this. Corey was feeling it today — he was hot. He played great. If he can play like that every night, it will be that much better for our...

That’s one of the great things about our team. Anybody can step in and score the points for us at any time. It’s just somebody else’s turn on any given night. . . . We...

The Big East, the best conference in all of the land, won’t be there. We’ve shown what we can do.

I don’t think we communicated as well as we should have. A few times, we got mixed-up. We just didn’t do a good job containing them on the perimeter.

We’re happy to be winning at this stage, but by no means are we satisfied. We were never looking to just reach the Sweet 16. We want to win it all.

I don’t have to pinch myself. I knew it was a good team from the beginning. It’s just surprising to all of y’all.

It’s great for us. We’ve just got to keep playing defense and play even better if we want to win the whole thing. I think we can do it.

I could be wrong but a lot of the fans that are here now, I don’t think they were here in the beginning. I think it’s crazy. I personally feel like there were a lot...

We’ve still got a lot to prove to a lot of people. So we just want to go out and advance as far as we can and try to win the whole thing.

I think it must be his hair. You know, the ponytail.

If we get complacent with where we are now we could easily lose (to George Mason). It’s not good enough now. We want to win the whole thing.

I think that starts in our scrimmages where everybody is talking trash and challenging each other. During games, once we get a defensive stop it kind of leads to a fast break, and a fast...

All of us knew what he was capable of when he first got here. He just is going out and playing ball. He’s just getting opportunities and he’s taking advantage of it.

They just wanted us all to play a role; I don’t think the coach wanted any of us to dominate. Mohamed and I were counted on to rebound, Lee to shoot threes and Ryan to...

I don’t think anybody’s ready to leave yet. Everybody loves each other and we want to come back and try to repeat. We’ve proven that we’re the best team in the country and we’ll be...

We just didn’t execute down the stretch like we needed to. Same exact thing happened twice. We didn’t play as good as we can and we didn’t execute at the end of the game.

Everybody wanted to see us lose. We just had to make the Cinderella story a different outcome than all the ones in the movies.

I think it’s kind of expected out of me to contribute. I haven’t been doing that as much as I should be doing the past couple of games.

We don’t really get caught up in that kind of stuff. That’s a lot of talk.

That’s the guy that talked all that crap about us in the Alligator before. That’s him right here.

That’s just how it is; that’s how people are, how they think. If we go out and lose in the first round (in the NCAA Tournament), everybody will say, ‘I told you so.’ If we...

Personally, I think we’ll be pretty good. I think we’re a defensive, stopping team, I think we’ll score more points than a lot of people think that we will, but I mean I think we’ll...

If Peyton saw how Lee shot the ball, he’d have to be proud of him. I don’t know as far as (Manning) it being an inspiration or anything but Lee played great, one of the...

We were just a little more hungry that Kentucky. We wanted this one for so many reasons.

I don’t really care who we play. We just want to win. If everybody wants to think [beating lower-seeded teams is] the way we got to where we are, let them think that.

I don’t have to pinch myself. I knew we were going to have a good team from the beginning. It was only a surprise for you all. We knew about this last summer when we...

I can’t say I’m surprised. We’ve been playing together a while and impressed a lot of people in the summer. I’m not going to pinch myself. You know, I’m not cocky, but I knew we...

I’m unhappy because we just lost. We thought we had it in our hands, but we just didn’t execute.

It’s hard to believe we’re here in the state of Minnesota. I never thought I’d go to Minnesota for any reason. But here we are, and we’re excited to be here. I’m glad I don’t...

A lot of point guards aren’t used to a guy 6-foot-8, athletic like Corey, guarding them. It was great for us. They couldn’t get anything going.

We have a lot of different people that can go out and get 10 or 15 [points ] a night, and that’s tough for other teams to match up against. They might focus on two...