It is a big game in a sense of being a TV game that’s big for our conferences, but first we have a league game that’s huge. Then we’ll be on a national scale and...

I think the kids were really focused. There was an edge to everybody. As we went out there, we knew we were going to get American’s best shot. We always played good defense.

They’re everything they are built up to be. The biggest compliment that I can pay is they play so hard. They’re the No. 1 team in the country and they play hard every day. The...

I think a lot of things happen that we play the way we do.

This is the way it?s going to be every game. I told the guys to embrace it, not fight it, then go out and have fun playing the game.

I think going to Pitt and winning and St. Joe’s got the ball rolling and as we went along we got confidence.

You have to keep going and realize it’s part of life. In that, we want everyone to share in the things that have happened to us.

You knew they were going to hit some deep shots, and we just had to keep grinding and grinding. I thought Donald Brown on the boards in the second half really mixed it up. I...

I’m not a guy that goes anywhere, but tonight I am.

We just had to keep grinding and grinding.

Three-pointers are part of the game. Obviously we have some guys that can shoot the basketball, that’s why it ended up being along the perimeter because they were so strong physically inside.

(The players) may not be giddy. But I?m still giddy.

It was a great game. The kids left it all out there. It was the kind of game where you thought you had it, and it got away.

When we get back, we’ll have some beers.

We found a combination there that was moving the basketball, and I thought we were pretty fresh with it. We got the spurt. I thought we were getting better and better shots.

That?s pretty impressive, nationally, that they think of us as a ninth seed. I think it?s recognition of who we played and who we beat.

The last two games, Charles has been our rock. He was a big key.

I think we have to take care of the ball in order to get some quick shots against them. They are obviously great athletes, great players. They get the ball up and down very quickly....

We haven?t even mentioned that. It was fit into our season, but it?s in the middle of our league schedule. Right now, the league is most important.

We know we’re a good basketball team. Even with rankings and all that sort of stuff, if you really knew our program you’d know these kids play for each other.

Charles used to drag Donald (Brown) to the gym every day. (Lee) worked with (Brown), helped him with his confidence.

Because of the financial situation, we used to get to the end of the steak dinner, and then you ask them to pay 42,000 dollars, and that was usually a deal-breaker. Now you can sit...

To be honest, we don’t know a whole lot yet about Arkansas, other than that they played very good basketball down the stretch.