I wouldn’t argue with anybody that said they were.

I wanted to give him the opportunity to share whatever feelings he had with our team. One of the things about our team is they feel nobody cares, or very few people care. He did,...

I can’t think of a team that needed that type win more than ours did anywhere in the country tonight. It’s one of those deals where you just feel like you’re capable of doing something...

Any team that goes into the NIT goes into it with something to prove. It’s not always, ‘We should’ve been in the NCAA Tournament.’ Sometimes you try to prove you’re better than what you’ve shown...

I’m not going to give him up easily.

We had what we wanted. I don’t know what happened; he just lost the ball off his foot.

We obviously took some 3s, no question about that. Probably no more than we should have, but we didn’t feel our inside game was going very well today. We did get some penetration off the...

As I look back on that game, I really think that it took a lot out of us it continued to serve as an anchor over the course of the rest of the season.

I don’t think I’ll hear anybody say, ‘Coach, we’ve been there and done that,’ but it might be thought of. Our season was an NIT season up to (the tournament).

I’ve done all I could do today to try to relieve some of the pressure that we have to win. When it’s not fun, we don’t play well. We had fun today.

It always comes back to you need to get to the NCAA Tournament and you need to play for the national championship. That does not demean this at all.

(His) play is on the rise. He’s doing things now — in addition to shooting the ball — that we’ve been trying to get him to do for a year and a half.

The beauty of basketball is that you do have conference tournaments to retain some lost glory. But you’re going to know pretty well, going into Wednesday, what you’re faced with.

Well, obviously our team played very well. I think both teams played really well. For the third game in a row, we opened with a deficit. Guys kept their poise and composure. Came back, tied...

It is strange playing Kentucky at this time of year with similar records. Their record is better than ours, but they are more similar than in recent years. The game is being played with meaning...

As proud as I am of his accomplishments, and nobody could be prouder, I am more proud that the most fun he has is with me, sitting in my den with my wife and I,...

Ole Miss is a better basketball team because they have better players. They have greater depth, are quicker in faster in all areas. They haven’t changed in terms of their style of play, they are...

If you don’t enjoy participating in games like this, either you don’t have a pulse or you don’t know what you’re doing or you should be doing something else. I’ve been checked on all three...

They hurt, but you’re so ever close to being where you want to be. But I don’t care how bad I hurt, I try not to bring that to the locker room or the gym....

We make no apologies about being here. We look at it as a special opportunity and we’re excited about it.

There is no league that can refurbish its rosters as quickly as this league, and I think the coaches have done that once again. The Southeast is as talent-laden as there is in the country....

We shot the ball well at Kentucky, the team rose to the occasion. The Florida game will be different – we will be playing at home and hopefully our fans will respond like the Kentucky...

Is our team down? Yes. As a matter of fact, I can tell you I’d be disappointed if they weren’t. That’s part of what I do, I deal with that kind of thing.

It wasn’t lack of effort. We tried hard, But we were out of sync for whatever reason.

Carlos led by example, but he also led by his voice. He was demanding. He brought his personality every night. And he demanded that everybody else do the same thing. Do we have somebody on...

I couldn’t say that was a championship caliber game in terms of playing really really well.

(Monday) is kind of an extra day to get ourselves ready. We’re really using yesterday and today to get ourselves caught up.

I have time on my contract. I fully intend to honor it.

Tonight it was particularly good that we beat a really, really fine basketball team… and we did it in front of a highly supportive crowd led by our student body. I mean, they were terrific....