We proved today we can gut it out.

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We can play as well as any of the teams in the league, we just have to play good defense and minimize mistakes.

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He choked up a little bit, but he tried to suck it up in front of us. You know Coach Williams, he's a real tough guy.

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You have to appreciate it. We probably won't right now because of our age, but later on after we get out of college and done with basketball, the history books will come on ESPN and Coach Williams and the Hall of Fame and what happened, and we were involved in that.

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Our defense really hurt us a lot this game. We didn't have problems scoring, we just had problems stopping them.

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I just tried to do what I could.

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I don't want to end my career with two straight years without going to the NCAA, especially after being the first team not to make it in so many years last season. That's not something I want to carry away with me.

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It's hard work, basically. Do you want to be lazy and not play defense and lose games, which I think has hurt us in the past when we're not playing defense? When we play hard and play defense, you guys see what happens. Scoring is not really a problem for us. It's the defensive end. If we go back and forth the whole game, that doesn't lead to anything.

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Yeah, that runs through my mind. It's hard to think about. I wish those guys were here.

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