That’s hard to overcome anywhere, home or away, neutral, wherever. The difference is the free throw line anyway you look at it.

It was a tremendous win for our team, a win that we needed badly. I can’t think of a team that needed a win as badly as we did.

I don’t think it is an elimination game (from the NCAA) for either team. I think it is an important game. If Kentucky wins, certainly it gives them a leg up (over us) because they...

They are playing real well right now and real well at home. They seem to have found an offense and how it works. They respond to their home crowd really well.

We sent an evaluation form in and we’ll see what the NBA general managers say. I think what he can do very well is readily seen.

We’ve got our hands full getting ourselves to where we want to be and also making sure we give proper respect to a team that’s had a really, really good year.

I do think our defense was solid all around, so was Georgia’s defense. If you have a chance to win at the end, you have to be happy with that, and we not only had...

I would not think that he would be back with us. It’s not likely he would be back.

I’ve been seeing it coming. In the back of my mind, we’re doing the right thing by getting the big guys ready.

I don’t think anybody had a blueprint for how the NIT committee operated; they were free to do what they thought was right. They had to make money to exist.

When I see Florida’s team, I see just that – a team. They all pass and catch so well.

After talking with the doctors and our medical staff, I am going to be very careful not to bring Renaldo back until we are confident his knee is completely recovered and able to withstand the...

I was a big proponent of it when it came up. I think anything we can do to draw attention to the SEC and to the history of the SEC is the right thing to...

When you see that, we’re extremely proud to count him as one of our own.

We have been in worse situations than this. But we’re prepared to play on the road.

It gives fans new hope; it gives coaches new hope. Certainly, it should give players new hope, as well.

It doesn’t look like it, but I think I’ve got one more week left in me. What a week that was, no question.

It was nothing short of desperation.

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.