Rick Barnes Guys Quotations

I don't know what you guys expect; it's the NCAA Tournament. If you guys are thinking we're going to blow teams out, you're not watching basketball. ... You kidding me? I'm glad we're going to play one more time. I'm not disappointed.

I don't know what you guys expect. This is the NCAA tournament. If you think there are going to be blowouts, they're not.

P.J. is special, he really is. He's just one of those guys who lets things go and moves along to the next play. He's not going to beat himself up very long. This time of year, you would expect him to do what he's done.

Our guys showed a tremendous will to win. We had some tough times, but we kept believing, and our guys never doubted they were a good basketball team.

Our big guys will have to guard their smaller players, so it?s a matter of defense. I?m not worried about us offensively.

I think that Rick would have to have upset a couple guys and have them quit,

I thought our guys did a good job of staying aggressive the last couple of minutes. We probably didn't make as many good decisions as we needed to be making in that situation but, overall, when they made their run and got back in it, we stayed with it. We pushed it back out there and made some free throws at the end. I'm happy with the fact that we had only seven turnovers and the job we did on the boards.

We've got some guys who are comfortable scoring. Our team is not built around one player.

Believe me, I'd prefer it not be this way. But one thing about our team is that we've had different guys all year finding different ways to win.

This is one of the better situations in the country. I know this, there are a lot of guys who would like to be sitting in my chair.

Their guys are quick. If you don?t handle the ball well, they do a tremendous job of taking it away and capitalizing on it.

I don't know if it's an advantage or a disadvantage. I told the guys were only going to worry about the game in front of us. From there, you move on to the next one if you're successful.

I don't know if guys have to quit, but it does help that P.J. is going to class,

A.J. has the 'it' factor. He's a confident player. When he's being aggressive, knocking down shots, our guys feed off him. We've come to really count on him.

That's stupidity. ... We're six games in. You've got to think teams are going to get better. That's just people wanting to write something. Our guys never thought that.

I told our guys before the game that the key would be what we got from our bench. I watched our last game (KSU) where we bogged down on the offensive end. Obviously, A.J. came up big. They did a great job of double-teaming the post.

I told our guys that if we're going to be a good team, we've got to find a way to win when we're not playing well. We did that tonight.

We tried to keep two guys down around the block. Every now and then we would float somebody into the high post. We felt like if we could take care of the ball, get it on the rim, that we could do some damage there. We ended with 17 of them (offensive rebounds) and that gave us 17 more opportunities.

He's not going to post those guys up. They're older, and they know how to push you around. He doesn't have to play with his back to the basket. He's really a good face-up shooter.