“I think I did that up until this game. Now, it's just a matter of let's just get this game over with and do our best. I want to win the game, no question. That would give us a single-digit loss season, and that's something that's appealing to me as a coach. But my real emphasis is getting to that tournament and trying to win it.”
“In Kentucky, it's everything. Our homecoming is during basketball season. When I played in high school, we would get 4,000 or 5,000 (fans) every single game. We had to play in a downtown arena. We couldn't play in our own high-school gym.”
“He's the best big player available. I've got a 6-foot-10 kid who signed with Xavier (Charles Bronson), and Hall is so much more physical and ready to play than he is, it's not even funny.”
“Normally, Charles (Bronson) has been doing that, but Brandon stepped up and did a great job. He got a little confidence going and he did a great job. They (Navarro) were doing such a great job of pressuring our wings that we had to get some inside relief to the pressure.”
