J. J. Johnson Against Quotations

I would expect an attack in the next six months. This is not just planning for possible military contingencies. There is real planning under way for carrying out a military strike against Iran.

Our guys are smart guys. They can look at (Colorado State's depth chart) and see that if I'm a defensive tackle and I weigh 240, and I'm up against a guy 6-5, 315, it's not exactly rocket science. We know Colorado State is bigger. It's something our guys have kind of grown accustomed to. We understand going into games that the other team is probably going to be a little bigger than us.

Right now our total energy is based on Arizona and trying to play better than how we played against the Bruins on Saturday. I think it's premature to respond to anything relating to the NIT.

We came out and played well in the first quarter. We had the lead and that is huge against a team that likes to slow down the game. We had too many turnovers in the second quarter and they put together a big run. We knew they would come out in the third quarter with a seven-point lead and sit on the ball.

You can go down their roster; all those guys are able to put the ball in the basket. Jamal Crawford in the past has been able to put up big numbers against us. Nate Robinson, Jalen Rose, you can go on and on.

Well, it was a little bit of surprise that it happened the way it did. I was very happy with the way we competed and played to win the game against Minnesota, but the unexpected came after the game when we heard about Duluth and I don't think anyone anticipated Duluth losing. But it was a pleasant surprise that luck worked out for us and things fell into place.

We have a hard time gettting up against non-conference opponents and playing well. We have to improve on ball control and get more confident in our abilities before Saturday,

To win 5-0 against anybody you can't really complain but I'm under no illusions because they weren't the best of sides.

Confidence is high right now. We're going to ride that into Saturday's game against Auburn.

The mindset of the key players has been more focused on the difficulties and the initial competitive disadvantages their own jurisdictions could encounter, as against the mechanism to overcome those difficulties.

Certainly we would have liked to have gotten that round against Greg. But we're not about to give up. We've got a fast ACDelco Cobalt, and a great team behind it, so we'll go on to Dallas, and keep pecking away at it.

He's one of the best players in the conference. So it's always good to go against somebody like that. It gets the competitive edge going. We get him sometimes, and sometimes he gets us.