It was becoming a distraction. We were aware of it, but it was still just a nuisance with all the buzz around here.

It was becoming a distraction. We were aware of it, but all the nuisance of the buzz. ... Now it's out there and we can go out and play these last five games.

Their guards were kind of passive and really wanted Tucker to take over the game.

We can exhale now. It feels like we got a little monkey off our back and we can gear up for Sunday.

With Marco out we really don't have a lot of options. We're small and we can shoot, so we might as well take advantage of it.

It would have been easy for us to not even be here, to not even make it to the tournament. We showed a lot of courage. Tonight we just got beat, but I think overall we showed a lot of guts.