We did hang around, but we didn’t make plays down the stretch. We needed a stop, a couple of scores. We didn’t get them and the game kind of rolled away from that.

My goal is to play Villanova a lot better than we played Mississippi State.

I was around his hands, going for the ball trying to get my nose in there. I don’t play dirty, but I play tough, physical. Sometimes it upsets some of their guys when a little...

From the beginning we thought we had a chance to win the game. We all kind of looked at each other and in unspoken words said ‘we can do this.’ What we said all along...

The whole building rose up. That was the loudest atmosphere I’ve ever been in. At that moment, I was having goose bumps.

The opposing team’s locker room is next to ours. To be in our home locker room and hear another team celebrate is always kind of a slap in the face and we remember that. We...

We’ve been fortunate to be in position every year where we have big games down the stretch with a chance to win the regular season. This is no different.

We thought we had a chance. At that moment, we all kind of looked at each other in unspoken words and said we could do this.

You take that as a challenge. I don’t think in the history, until the end of time, it’s going to be 0-1,000. I guess eventually it has to happen, a win. Whether we’re going to...

I don’t think until the end of time it’s going to be 0-1,000.

That was the loudest atmosphere I have ever been in. I had goose bumps.

Defensively, we gave up easy buckets. You can’t win [that way] against a good team.

They’re really, really good on defense. The biggest thing is their recovery speed. They’re a split-second faster than anyone else we’ve played.