A big, big factor in South Carolina ‘s favor. They do a great job of forcing turnovers and making assists. Didn’t happen today.

We did not have our game with us today. We were very out of sync and I don’t know why that is. This is one of our more difficult games because Arkansas is such a...

We were only down six points with about 3 minutes on the clock and then gave in with a rash of errors at the end. Anybody who saw the game knows it was not a...

I think it’s very cloudy at this point and I want better than that for him. He’s come a long way as a person and a long way as a player. … There are still...

That’s all any coach wants a chance to win the game in the last minute of the game. We had that chance. I have no regrets. None. No regrets.

Boy, I’ll tell you, that’s amazing shooting.

It kept them off stride.

This is a big thing for our team, school and our state.

When we’ve played well, he’s done well. But some times he gets in there and gets tied up.

The team that won this game certainly had a leg up (on making the NCAA tournament), but I do not believe that this is in any way an elimination game from our perspective. We’ve got...

We were able to build a lead and maintain it for most of the second half. Towards the end of the half, our ball-handling and turnover woes came back to us.

Charles Rhodes is the best-kept secret in the league. He is big and strong and took on Auburn’s whole front line. This is an important game and we will play as best we can.

They are playing their best basketball right now.

I don’t think he’s ready. He needs a year of perimeter play.

He’s done a great coaching job with great class and great dignity.

I thought what you saw was two teams that played really too hard. When you play as hard as both teams played, it’s hard to play a pretty game. It certainly was anything but that.

I’ve been in worse situations than this. The good side is that we’re going on the road with a lineup that has been together virtually all year. The problem is if you run into foul...

This is the time of year you either grow or you get worse. I prefer to look at it as it is time for us to grow up.

The championship game is not Sunday unless we get to it. Tomorrow is our championship game. It’s all or nothing.

Name it, he did it. It was a remarkable performance by a really talented player.

Those kinds of things set you back. I think Rick knew this year was going to be a different year for him.

Anything that can be done to draw the attention to the history of our conference is a good thing.

That almost did us in right there.

It seems like it’s been a year since we played. It will be good to get back to the court … against a real good Florida State team.

For teams like ours, it begins with the conference tournament. If we don’t get past that, we’re not going to be there.

Our team overcame more obstacles last week than any team in my memory that I’ve been involved with. To have our team remain above all that and play as well as they did and win,...

Sparks shot that one from the museum some place. Even if we were man-to-man, I doubt we would have guarded him that far out.

During my 26 years of college coaching, I have had the opportunity to experience exciting games played in great arenas across the country. Capacity crowds cheering for their teams in ‘fan-friendly’ arenas are what made...

We’ve got one game, and tomorrow is our championship game. The championship game is not Sunday unless we get to it. It’s all or nothing. We’ve got to put everything we’ve got into that and...

The loss is disappointing. Physically and mentally we gave in there at the end. It doesn’t mean we didn’t try. We made bad decisions at the end and you can’t do that against a team...

You have to account for their two big post guys. It’s arguable if they were the difference in the game. They certainly were factors.

They kind of lured us into a web, their web, and we took those shots.

We did not have a good day. It just gives you a bad feeling as a coach when your team, mentally, is not where it needs to be.

We had a season-low four turnovers, which is unheard of this time of year.

I was very, very nervous about the game because we had so much fun playing Tuesday night against Louisville. Fun as in we won in a kind of loose fashion. I said one thing that...

Sam Young had six offensive rebounds, four of which I know were put back by him.

When you look at our season, it was a season that was filled with just about everything. We had several highs and at least an equal number of disappointments and a lot in between.

It depends on your offense. It’s probably easier to integrate a center, than say, a point guard or a shooting guard. And getting the playing time he did as a freshman last year should be...

With Florida, we are facing a team, and I say team underlined. They are, in the truest sense, a real team.

That’s not my decision. I’m always interested in what’s best for this program.

That’s where we are and what we’re going to deal with. We’ll do our job.

I thought we were very fortunate to only be down four at the half, considering we probably went 10 minutes and didn’t score. I felt like we could win it. It was a difficult game...

I don’t know that our team rivals that, and I certainly don’t rival him, but the accomplishment remains the same. We did win two back-to-back and for that I am thankful and very, very proud.

What that really did was open the door for us to go to the smaller lineup, which was death for (S.C. State).

He’s one of top freshmen in our league.

Primarily, the result represents what was best for college basketball at this time. It ensures we will continue to have an undisputed national champion every year, and at same time be able to preserve the...

He’s going to bring a large dose of energy to Kentucky at the right time. He’s an excellent post player, probably one of the best in the league.

I’m sure there’ll be some type of argument from somebody, but I can’t think of a team that needed a win more than ours did anywhere in the country.

We had an opportunity to win the game, we really did. We just didn’t get it done.

I told the guys if it’s throwback weekend, let’s throwback all the way. That didn’t go over too well.