Andy Kennedy Quotes

I spent all my childhood years trying to get out (of Mississippi), and I've spent all my adult years trying to get back.

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Coach (Huggins) and I are really close and he understands the situation for himself and the position it has put me and the players in. He takes great pride, as we all do, as to what he has built here over the past 16 years. He takes great pride in seeing that go forward, especially with this group that are all here because of him.

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He's going to be a tough kid, even though he's only 6-4, he gives us a toughness at the basket. He knows how to block out, he knows how to position off the ball. I think his basketball aptitude is pretty good.

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They are definitely a group of fighters. They've been terribly resilient through a myriad of circumstances which they are currently under. I'm proud of the team and the way we have grown together as a group. We're certainly looking forward to the challenges that lie ahead.

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You cannot be tentative against pressure. They sensed that fear and they jumped on it like great teams do and took us right out of the action.

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This team just has to find a way, we have to keep battling, there's no time to hang our heads. We tip it again in a Big East game at 2 p.m. Sunday (against Rutgers). I want it to hurt, so they don't want to feel that way again, and it's certainly hurting our guys.

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We've shot the ball well. We've spent a little more time in individual improvement, with guys getting reps and taking practice time to do that. But as a coach, when you're making shots, you think the defense is terrible, so we've tried to do some different things defensively.

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There's been a couple of schools that have made some preliminary inquiries, as of this time that's not something I want to share publicly.

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It's an easier way to get through to them, honestly, because a lot of times kids don't want to get caught up in the phone calls.

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As a kid you always play with your siblings and your friends who can hold their breath the longest. I just held mine for six months. Literally when that last shot by (West Virginia's) Frank Young came up a little short was the first time I exhaled. I feel better about things because I think our team has earned our way to where we want to be ultimately.

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Eric was out of it as he was sitting there at halftime. But he looks a little crazy most of the time, so it's hard to tell. He was wobbling off his stool. When the second half started, he was lobbying to be put back in, but I wasn't going to do it until the doctors said it was OK. Eric is a warrior. He'll be fine once he gets a little rest. If there's one place you can hit him and not hurt him, it's his head.

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Dev is a freshman and sometimes I think we all lose sight of the fact that he's a kid that just a very short time ago was watching these games on television. And now I'm depending on him making play after play after play. That's not easy to do.

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We realize this has been quite an odyssey that we've been on. And we know the next time we lose, that odyssey comes to a close.

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I haven't felt good in a long time. I was just relieved that we were still in the game.

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I'm still feeling violated. We won't talk about the NIT today.

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