We needed this win badly, and it felt great. Everybody did their job today.

He's a great player. He definitely doesn't play like a freshman. He's a beast in the post. He's their main component and they try to get the ball to him every time.

We were right there. We've just got to keep pushing. We are going to be a good team, we've just got to do a couple of things to tighten it up.

There's no excuses. You have to be ready to play. I feel I let my team down today because I just didn't perform today. I didn't do anything out there on the floor. I was terrible.

It was just a point where I had to let everybody settle down and get to their spots before we started running the offense. The offense became more efficient against Wake Forest. I'm trying to keep that same tempo and just slow down a little bit and just see the floor a little bit better.

We're ready to go down there and show what we can do.

Saturday we just didn't play good team defense. It wasn't one person. One player can't stop a guard that's going to keep penetrating. You're going to get in foul trouble. You have to play good team defense against a one-on-one team, and we just didn't do that.

Gray and Mike, they were just hitting shot after shot. It just seemed like it was a two-man show, like it was one-on-one.

We kind of relaxed a little bit, but we were still getting hands up in some people's faces and they were just hitting shots.