(Jacksonville) would be like home-court advantage for us. It would make it that much easier for us to win and make it to the Sweet 16.

I think it’s been hard for any team to match up with us in the post as far as speed and quickness and all that kind of stuff.

There was nobody talking to us when the season started. Now look at this.

Minnesota. Nobody knows anybody here. We’re in a foreign place.

We want to win the championship. That’s what it’s all about. Just winning the championship.

If Peyton saw it he has to be proud of him. Lee played great and it was one of the best I’ve ever seen him play.

You give yourself a little workout before you get into the game running to the scorer’s table.

We’re a pretty unselfish team. We all like to keep each other involved.

You watch him on film, and maybe you think he’s a little small. So you can bang him inside or do something with him. But you get out on the court, and he’s completely different.

We didn’t want to be a part of their movie. No Glory Road . We didn’t want to be the team in the movie that gets upset by the good guys.

We won’t be happy until we win it on Monday night, if we’re fortunate enough to do that. If we win it, that’s when we’ll be able to say we’re happy to be here.

That would make it that much easier for us to advance to the next round. It would be like home-court advantage for us. So we need to try to win out and do the best...

I think all of us have competed for a championship at least once in our lives. So all of us know how to deal with it. It’s kind of like we have a test. You...

George Mason is just another team that wants to win as badly as we do. They deserve the Final Four. If we come in with the wrong mind-set, we won’t be playing very long.

The best part is nobody is jealous. Because if we keep winning, the attention goes to all of us, anyway.

We want to win the championship.

We don’t get caught up in all that (favorite) stuff. It’s just a lot of talk. We came in (to the season) as a team that might not make it to the NIT and now...

It’s just regular length. If I had to, I’d wear them. But I don’t think we need the short shorts.

The last time I did something like that was in high school.

You’re still talking about it. We’re ecstatic [about this win].

It’s great being here, but I don’t think it’s good enough. We won’t be happy unless we win the whole thing.

Our four big guys can run with guards. And we all know it, so when we go on a fast break, it’s like a track meet with us running side by side down court.

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.