Frank Haith Game Quotations

My thing with Duke is they are a high percentage team, so I'm real pleased with the fact that we held them to 41 percent shooting. But J.J. is a great player and when the game is on the line your players have to make plays. He knew he was going to try to make a play and he did.

We could have easily faltered right there. If you look at it, you've got the game won with 1.7 seconds left. They make a play and it looks like they've got all the momentum.

We had our opportunities. It is disappointing because we want to win those games and we had opportunities to finish the game off.

I'm very proud of our kids, especially for our ability to come in here and have some toughness to finish the game off.

Not having him the first seven ballgames, it showed. And it shows now when he's out of the game in our ability to get into the offense. It just takes a little time. I think we're finally starting to get together a little bit.

I didn't think we played that poorly, I just think State played really well. They shot the ball tremendously that day and they were playing at a high level. I told Herb after the game that he had a heck of a team. I think they are the second best team in the league right now. It will take a yeoman's effort for us to beat them.

I told the guys after the North Carolina game that this is a big win and I'm happy for you. But we've got to enjoy it today and focus on Clemson. That's the most important game on the schedule because it's the next game on the schedule, and you have to protect your home court.

We have to do a better job marketing college basketball and with our game operations. They have to understand that having a sixth man is important.

They're an outstanding team and J.J. is terrific. We executed our game plan. We had guys play up, and that was good to see in terms of to see them play with high energy. The difference in the game? We make one three, they make 13 threes. We make 10 free throws, they make 29.... When you look at those two numbers, it's hard to win.