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WhatI hope is he uses the next five days to get in the weight room, come back and be the star he's supposed to be.

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The biggest thing I told (Anderson) is that he can't get caught up in the shooting and scoring. He got tentative last week because he missed some shots. We don't need (him) to make shots. We need (him) to do the energy stuff.

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My first thought was for him to go overseas, make 5 or 6 million over his career, then come home and do whatever he wants. But he chose the unconventional way, the NBDL, which is hard. But he did it.

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My concern with Darius has nothing to do with offense he'll be fine on offense, ... It has to do with whether he can guard the position. Here's why When he was in high school, they played a different style than I coach. It was, 'press all over and try to steal the ball.' You can't play in college or the NBA that way -- you have to guard somebody. Now that he's playing for me, it's going to be different.

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It surprised me because I thought we'd be more physical than them and we weren't. They were more physical than us.

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The great news is that we have a lot of guys coming back and a lot of guys coming in. So for this program, yeah, you'd like to have some guys back. But it's about them at this point.

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I said I don't care what conference they're from, they must be teams that are going to win 17 or more games. The bottom of our schedule was dragging us down. You can schedule teams with great names, but if they go 7-21, it kills you.

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A great defensive effort. I always go with the same thing We want to make the game hard for the other team, and we did today.

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There is a star born in every one of these games, and today it was Andre Allen.

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The Missouri Valley Conference bought games. And they all have winning records. Did I (say) that they all played tough teams No. Look at their non-conference schedules.

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We are chasing greatness with this team.

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I like it. It's stimulated by thinking. I thought it was the best way to utilize these players. So I changed. People thought I was crazy. 'You've won all these games doing it one way, all of a sudden you're changing everything.

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That was a high-level basketball game. My hat is off to Tennessee.

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This has been an unbelievable year, no matter what happens. I did a better job of coaching last year than this year. What we went through last year, we can laugh, but I will not watch a tape from last year.

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We're deep and we're also fast. I want the game that way.

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Grown people cried in that arena, my wife and kids included. And it wasn't because we lost. They were crying for him. You learn that at your worst moment, people feel compassion.

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I second the motion. His record is spotless. He graduates every kid. He doesn't look at other women. He doesn't smoke.

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I thought Kareem was terrific. He's been working out at 630 in the morning. He's been working hard at practice. He has been humble about this whole situation.

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When we coach against another team, we're trying to make it as hard as we can on them to beat us. On this committee, we're trying to (make it) as hard as we can for them not to give us (the No. 1 seed). They may not, but we made it very difficult for them by winning the game.

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They're intelligent kids. They're doing well in school. They take care of business. ... Decision-making can be suspect at times based on their inexperience.

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That was a high-level basketball game. My hat is off to Tennessee . They played exactly like they needed to play. They are executing how they want to play. They got it inside when they needed to get a couple of baskets.

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He made runners, he made them when they bumped him, he made them inside. He rebounded the ball. He did a fairly good job of defending. We (isolated) him about 10 straight times, and about nine of them, we got something good either he scored or got somebody else something.

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I really like the balance we had today. We played nine guys for a lot of minutes and they all performed. There is a star born in every one of these games and today it was Andre Allen.

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For us to get a first seed, it just doesn't happen. Well, it's never happened here before. It's hard. There are only four teams that get this. I'm really proud for the respect that the committee has shown toward us.

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When you beat a team on a 10-game win streak, that's a great win. We had chances to get it to 16, 18, 20 and we're just not capable of it yet.

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