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...

The thing about our guys is they don’t need the money.

If he plays like this every night, we won’t lose.

I don’t think we’re Cinderella. We’re kind of like Superman.

I think it’s a great chance (everyone will stay) because none of the people who have an opportunity to leave are really hurting financially. That helps us out a lot. Everybody might not love school,...

It motivates us a little more. Away games are a lot tougher to win. So, our mindset has to be right. We’ve lost two road games already this year. I know all of us think...

It felt great, but we don’t feel as good as a lot of people may think about advancing to the next round because it’s just another game.

He says he’s really happy for us. But it’s eating him up inside to see us do this.

Anyone who would say they’re not, subconsciously, they are. Everybody wants to get the best seed they can, so it can be easier for them in the beginning.

We still feel like we’re the better team. We kind of let it get away from us. If we were to play them again, I think we could pull it off. The same thing happened...

I think they’ve played excellent. David stepped up big game in the Ole Miss game and Walter has been stepping up ever since he’s been starting. To me, I can’t really ask them for too...

We want to win it, and we’ll do whatever it takes to win.

If everybody comes back like I’m anticipating, we’ve got a great chance of doing it again next year. The scary thing is we still this year haven’t played our best ball. I think if everybody...

His improvement is more of a shock to the fans. We always knew what he was capable of doing. Now he has the opportunity to showcase his skills.

We’re going to be eager all day. I bet most of the guys wish they could get up at 7 p.m. and then just go play. There’s going to be a lot of sitting around,...

That was the plan for the whole game, but we just didn’t do it. We tried, but they played good defense. Once we got it worked out, we kept going at it and going at...