Marcus Williams Team Quotations

We need to make sure we focus. A good team like Syracuse, I think they can capitalize a lot better than Indiana can. We need to keep them off the offensive glass, they're capable of having a big game.

Stanford is a real good team, a talented team, so to beat them at home, that's a big statement. That tells you how well our team played. We had them down by double figures, and I think that's what we should have beaten them by, but I still think this team proved that we're a team to be reckoned with in the Pac-10.

Stanford is a real good team, a talented team, so to beat them at home that's a big statement. That tells you how well our team played. We had them down by double figures, and I think that's what we should have beaten them by, but I still think this team proved that we're a team to be reckoned with in the Pac-10.

I was kind of overeager in some of those games, expecting to just get the ball and score. I just realized you have to play with the team. Everyone on the team can do really well, so you have to be patient and the shot will come to you.

I think our team can take any challenge a team throws at us. If we get caught in a close game, I think we can make the right plays late in the game.

I think we proved that this team is still to be reckoned with in the Pac-10.

I think we proved that this team is still to be reckoned with in the Pac-10. Starting on the defensive end, we just stepped it up.

We couldn't get a stop. We just couldn't. That's only the second time a team has shot 50 percent against us ... They beat us on the glass. They went after every loose ball. They made big shots.

We can't get bigheaded. We can't just think every team is going to lie down after we get a big victory. We were thinking Syracuse was going to lie down after those first 30 minutes and they actually crawled back to get within two possessions. You can't do that.

We're twice as good. He's the team leader.

Washington, D.C.. That's all I was thinking about ? going to D.C. I've never been to the Sweet 16. I was trying to help my team get there.

The team doesn't want to be bullied. It makes you look like a coward and makes you look small. Our team has more of an ego or a pride thing. Teams seem to try and bully us and we step up and take the challenge.

Our team will accept any challenge, and if we get caught in a close game we just make plays at the end.

There's no question whether this team is tough or not. We just need to have more defensive intensity in the first half. Everyone on this team is tough. We just came out flat.

This is a team I thought that could get to the national championship game.

I know the game is going to be a lot more physical. We're going to have to show what this team is all about.

That isn't going to do it. Twenty-five minutes? Coach told us if we play 40 minutes, we can be the best team in the league.

The No. 2 team just lost by (25) points. That just goes to show that anything can happen at any point.

It surprised me a little bit knowing them. I think they were ranked pretty high coming into the preseason. You always know they're going to be a tough team during the Pac-10.

In the NCAA Tournament, no team is going to go away easy. Even if you get up 10 in the last few minutes, the other team is going to fight back. Everyone wants to get to the next round. I didn't think it was going to be easy, even when we got up seven points with five or six minutes left. We just needed to stick with our offense and play solid defense.

As a freshman you go in there and you step into deep water. Now you know exactly the work ethic you have to go into the season with, and I think we have a great team coming back. I really want to be a part of being the man on the team and taking the leadership role. That will help me grow. This team will have the potential to do a lot of big things.

There was no doubt in my mind the whole game; I thought we were going to win. Once again, after that shot, we were in a similar situation. This is a team I thought would get to the national championship.

They're giving me lanes, giving me shots to take. So why not take them? I think our team can accept any challenge a team throws at us.