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It's not something I will ever bring into our conversation in the gym until it's absolutely necessary. I don't think it really has a place. What has helped make us moderately successful until this point has been our focus.

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We've got to improve our talent level, we've got to improve our work ethic, we've got to improve a lot of things about the program. ... You have to do it step by step.

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We're trying to just continue to build off the last two games. It's equally challenging to bring a team back from a victory, an important victory, as it is from a defeat. We need to continue to challenge our guys to remain focused and understand the job at hand.

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It's obviously frustrating. We're not primed and ready to contend for a league or national championship. It says we're very good at home and very bad on the road.

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I think they've done a really good job of getting their name out there. Not just locally, but nationally, I hear their name a lot.

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There were some key moments in the first four or five minutes when they got to a couple of loose balls or got some offensive rebounds when you could see we were a step slow.

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His hard work, dedication and leadership gave him and our team many great nights this season.

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They had a ton of options that they could go to tonight. We had to put a lot of pressure on Sean and J.R. to make every single play.

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You can throw all the good things or all the bad things that you've done this season out the window. Now it's possession to possession. If you win the game, it's because you're better that day. You don't have to be better for a month or better for a week. You have to be better for that day, and we'll get some rest and try to be the team that's better tomorrow.

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Like I've said 100 times, it's never pleasing to lose. We didn't do the things we needed to win tonight. We have poor execution. Back door cuts, post ups, it was just a lack of execution.

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You have to credit him for having the gumption to make a shot like that. They Virginia Tech were doing a really good job at hedging defensively. On that play, they did what I thought they were going to do -- a hard hedge on J.R. Reynolds -- and that left Adrian open.

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There are key moments in the first four of five minutes of a game where you can tell a little about the tone of the game. They got a couple loose balls and a couple of offensive rebounds, and we were a step slow. Anytime a team gets into foul trouble is usually an indicator that a team is a step slow.

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You can't be all things to all people. I'm sure if Herb had his way, he'd like to have more rebounds. But when you spread the court like that, and you have more perimeter players, you do give up something.

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For the third game in a row I thought we played with some mental focus and toughness. There were certain spots in the game when the ebb and flow could have gone one way or another, and we responded well. For example, in the second half we rebounded much better than we did earlier on.

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I'm sure over the next few days, like any coach whose season comes to an end, you get reflective. We were able to do some things, but at the same point in time you never want your season to come to an end. I'm disappointed that it is, but obviously I think we grew and we learned a lot.

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I think what makes this particular team so good is . . . they've got two of the top four or five players in America, and everybody else - including those two - executes their mission more than anybody I've seen in a long time.

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By coming back this, he's really made it worth while and we all need to sit back and admire because it really won't happen for a long time after this.

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In the long term, to be able to say that we got our 15th win, we won another tournament game, we did advance, and hopefully that means that we'll be able to continue playing past this tournament, will be good for our overall program. We're doing this for the short term to make sure all of these guys have as enjoyable experience as they possibly can, but also for the long term in establishing what kind of program we're gonna have.

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Because we're new to this whole thing and relatively inexperienced in dealing with everything that comes in front of us, it's equally as challenging to bring a team back from a victory and an important victory as it is from defeat. So we've got to continue to challenge our guys in that way to remain focused and understand the job at hand.

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At the start of the game we played with a collective focus and energy. We talked about getting off to a good start, and, to our credit, we did.

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Everybody in the country is fighting for their lives.

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I thought it was huge. One, it allowed us to give Sean a break from playing point and trying to score. Two, he got us some fast break points. And he stepped up and got fouled and made some big free throws.

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At our core is where we work extremely hard at it and have certain principles that we don't stray from, like staying in front of your man. We have to almost be a chameleon at times and change on the fly. Sometimes you have your fastball working and other times your curveball has to work for you. We've been fortunate enough that some of our adjustments have worked. We've caught a good rhythm with it and hopefully we can continue to do that.

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He coaches with the same energy and passion that we'd like to have in our program.

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It has been a very good rivalry, but it seems to be a pretty special rivalry right now because both teams are ranked in the top 20.

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