I am so proud of our guys to win a game like this. To continue to just chip away, chip away and not lose your composure, that's what you love to see. We are a team. That's the only way you win games like this.
I think the game is evolving that way. I just think players are playing a lot of different positions these days and are interchangeable in a lot of cases.
We could not let up at any point of the game, because they would come back and take the lead on us.
That was a great college basketball game that was played. I am so proud of our guys, and they can't look back and say, 'If only I would have tried a little harder.' They did. They gave it everything that they had.
It wouldn't surprise us at all if he led our team in rebounding as a freshman. He just has a knack for making big plays but he approaches the game as if he doesn't have a scholarship. He's old school.
Brandon Roy had a phenomenal game again. But, to come up short is really disappointing.
You're so anxious, because it's the NCAA. Sometimes the first tournament game is the most difficult game.
That was a big win for us. I thought we played about as solid a game as we have played in a while.
I want to make this clear. Whether it's for the Pac-10 Conference tournament championship, Pac-10 championship or second place, whatever it is, this is a big game to us. It means a lot to us, whatever way you slice it.
It's good to have guys that will come in the game sometimes when things aren't going well and give you a shot in the arm.
I call him the chameleon because his game is constantly shifting.