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Paul is very intelligent. He's very skilled, has great hands and can do a turnaround jumper from 6 feet to 18 feet on the block.

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I thought we had them at that point, but they kept making shots.

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Our shot selection hurt us in the first half. After that I thought we (gave) a valiant effort.

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You don't want to notice them. You don't notice the really good ones. Those guys ref the game the way it's supposed to be called. Simple as that.

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I thought maybe we could do it. I've seen our guys get hot. But we could never get close enough to put pressure on them.

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I remember back to the year he got hurt. He spent more time tripping over his feet than anything else. So he's improved a lot, and he's consistently improved every year.

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This team has figured out how to win games.

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What you have to understand is that at our level, reaching the Sweet 16 is like reaching the Final Four. It raises the profile of a program like nothing else can.

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We can't let one loss affect the next day. If we do, we're going to lose 16 straight in this league. We're 2-1. We're 11-3, and we've got a home game.

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I knew we had good players. But for this group to do what it has been doing has been a pleasant surprise.

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It's just a basketball game. It's just played in a bigger arena with more people watching.

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If you look over the (statistic) sheets of our last few games, it's been that way. We've worked on it all year, trying to get them to pass the ball and use each other. They really did that well tonight. This was a great team game.

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I don't think we played particularly well in the first half. We didn't play together. We didn't play the way that led us to a league championship and the Sweet 16. Our shot selection hurt us in the first half.

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We've had a lot of practice the last two weeks and it showed today. When we shoot well, we're pretty darn good.

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It's great for the Colonial Athletic Association and great for the Missouri Valley that we're in this situation. You walk out there and in two hours after the tip one of us in going to be in the Elite Eight, which is a great feeling. It should be an evenly-matched game but I know we're going to have to play very well, especially in this environment.

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I couldn't get them under control in the first half. I just couldn't. They thought if they made a shot it would count as nine points.

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If you put a gun to my head, I would say we would get four in. But there's a lot of basketball left, and the upsets will hurt a lot of at-large teams.

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If you look at the numbers, we almost played a perfect half offensively. It took that, because I thought Tennessee played at a high, high level (Saturday). I thought they played really good. Our guys just wanted it.

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I have been saying three or four teams the whole time. The last couple of days, we've gotten so much publicity that it's almost been negative.

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I think that's the way to the teach the game. I want to be balanced. I don't want to have to rely on one guy to get 18 points every night or two guys to get 18 and 16. That's why we were able to win so many close games, because one night it was Paul, the next night it was Sean. The next night it was Kyle.

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Last year I think we wanted to be part of the NCAA Tournament so badly we didn't worry about the things that we could control, which is making our team better. That's what we're doing this year.

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Kids handle discipline different ways. Some get embarrassed. Some get mad. You just hope in the end they all use it the right way, and I think they will. I think the only way to get through to players today is playing time. It used to be running them, getting them out of bed and running them. Playing time, today, is really the answer. Hopefully, we won't have this again.

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We can't make a jump shot.. It's wearing on us.

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We've got good players, and I thought we were in a pod we were very capable of winning if we played well.

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When we shoot well, we're pretty darn good. We always try to defend and rebound, but we look better when we make shots. Today, we were pretty hard to guard.

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