We lost Carols Powell and we have no one to fill his spot. We don’t have anyone to assume the sole role of leadership that he had. But collectively, I think we do. I think...

You have to be concerned with him on the perimeter and not come down on guys like Morris and Bobby Perry. You have to stay out on him. That is particularly difficult for a team...

The baskets actually look lower than 10 feet.

It may come at a point where I change my mind, but at this point I think he should come back. I think he would be much better served to come back and … improve...

Will this test our motivation? Oh, yeah. The key in my opinion is what happens between now and (the end of practice at) 6 o’clock Tuesday night.

I told them I’d let them mourn until we get back home. When we get off that bus, I’ll do whatever I’ve got to do holler, scream, throw chalk, whatever. We will be ready to...

It took awhile to get him under control.

Renaldo knew going into today that he wasn’t going to start but when the opening came, he was ready. He was ready because he practiced hard the past two days. Starting or not starting doesn’t...

Keep your poise, keep your composure, keep playing.

We’ve had great efforts that has not been a problem. Finishing games has been. We finished tonight.

One win in overtime certainly, certainly helps. It just makes you feel a little better about yourself. But in all honesty, you’ve got to prove that again and again and again.

The point is to keep playing. Block the shot, but keep playing. Ideally, you want to keep it inbounds.

I told my team today … I want each one of my players, when they’re gone, to feel that way. I am so pleased to see him happy at who he is.

It certainly was a big loss for them. They would not have been the same team tonight had Courtney Lee been here. They would have been a much better team. No question.

We played that game like it was a TV game and we didn’t want to lose any (viewers).

All of our games are like that. But this is a group that is blessed with great resolve.

Sparks … shot the ball from the Rupp Museum.

That was probably the first time since we’ve been here. You could tell that Kentucky had the bit in their mouth and we didn’t. They were out to win the basketball game. We took timeout...

He clearly was our best defender on the perimeter last year. I expect nothing less than that this season.

For whatever reason, against us it’s always easy to shoot 3-point shots in last four minutes of the game when you’re down double figures. I don’t know why that is.

He was on the bench. I didn’t think he was playing very well. I didn’t think he was playing very hard.

Not only do I keep (such information) away from my team, I keep it away from myself.

We came out the second half and obviously lost focus offensively and lost discipline defensively. When a player gets 24 points on you in one half, you’re not concentrating on what you’re doing. Why that...

They’re a team that preys on your mistakes more readily than any team in our league.

It means a lot to our team, our university, our state.

Some might say there was a team in the country that needed a win like this more than we did. I would argue that.

(Sparks) shot the ball extremely – just absolutely amazingly – well in the second half. When a guy is shooting the ball remarkably well like that, it’s really a tough guard.

It is possible to win at Florida, but we are playing a team with good depth and good inside talent. When (senior center Adrian) Moss is your fourth post guy, you have a very good...

I felt like we could win coming in, all the way through the game I thought we could win. But when I really felt like the door opened was … the intentional foul. I thought...

He loves this place and it will be hard for him to pull the plug on that.

The truth of the matter is that’s what I do. I’ve got to control that. I’ve got to influence that first. And I will. The best way to get through that is to work together...

It was a difficult game to play, it was a difficult game to coach. And I’m certain it was a difficult game to watch.

I’m very, very disappointed that things happened at the end of the week that have taken us to this point. I wanted badly for him and our team to be at or near full speed...

I know (Kinsey) would have been here. It’s one of those things: He wasn’t here on time, so he doesn’t start. That throws Renaldo back in there.

For once, we came out of the locker room in the second half and played liked we wanted to win the basketball game. But at one point, we decided we had played well long enough...

We realized we were playing a team that was missing one of its best players. That certainly messed up their offensive cohesion.

He’s a terrific shooter. He’s had terrific practices.

He had a basketball IQ. He could make that kind of change. But there are very few of those guys.

They all posted him up. But he was nice enough to let them do it.

Both teams were short of bodies — not a lot of depth, but with a lot of heart.

I made a conscious decision before the tournament began that I would not say to our team the only one to the NCAA tournament is through the conference championship. Our team knows they’re playing in...

The bigger lesson is you affect the things that are still possible. And you do it in a positive way.

We stood up to the challenge. We played very well. We did not play well enough to win.

I was looking at my calendar when we coming back on the bus, and I didn’t realize we were gone from home that much. I’ll have to say it was 16 days well spent.

Our team showed great resolve. Both teams were short on bodies and had not a lot of depth, but neither was short on heart. We feel proud to come out a winner.

More is not always better, particularly with Renaldo sometimes, less is better. If you keep him uncomfortable, you’ve got a good chance of having a good game out of him. You want him uncomfortable.

He’ll just dunk on you. Lots of people would call that style. I wouldn’t. I just call it good basketball.

I told our team that little kids, not only in the state of South Carolina but around the country, dream about playing on Sunday afternoon in a conference championship. For our team to have a...

We didn’t get out of the box offensively at all. I thought if we could ever hit one or two shots in the first six or seven minutes, it would have unlocked us offensively and...

They didn’t receive that well, I will tell you. It was like we were criticizing them. Yeah, it’s constructive criticism. In all honesty those guys made mistakes trying to do the right thing the wrong...