“That's the beauty of college basketball. Anybody can compete on the floor -- not just in the computers or polls -- and earn themselves a national championship.”
“A lot of us might not have been highly recruited. But we've played against guys of (Florida's) stature. It's not one of those things you could be intimidated by. If you love the game you should be having fun with it.”
“Our coaches have preached that the whole way through the tournament: Just have fun. There's no pressure on us. In earlier games, we could have lost by 30 to Michigan State and North Carolina and everybody wouldn't have been writing about us, and we would have just went home and this would have been done with. But we don't feel any pressure now that we're here. We can just go out and play.”
“There's definitely no pressure on us. We're an 11 seed. We could have gone out and lost by 30 points and nobody would have said anything. All the experts would have been right. And we would have just gone home. This would have been over.”
“I think we definitely understand how great of a season it's been. But at this point right now, we're so close we wanted it, I know we all did. To say that we're satisfied, I can't. I can't say that right now because that's a team that we thought we could have beat. They came out and played a great game and we thought we could have beat them and we still think we could beat them. But we don't get another chance.”
