He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.

He's basically responsible for history. He had some talented kids, but his ability to get the superstars to buy into my system was absolutely paramount.

If he was at a Midwest junior college... he would have ended up at a top 10 program. He wanted a coach that would let him lead. He hasn't lost in about two years. It's not in his DNA.

That was our focus, stopping him. I saw the film from other games and I went, 'Oh, are you kidding me? This kid is for real.' We have two guys who can guard a guy like that and we were lucky we did.

Brian does an unbelievable job. They weren't going to quit. It got a little scary there at the end.

When we play defense with that kind of energy, we're as good a team as I've ever seen.