My goals have gone from being an all-star to just being able to play basketball. I always took for granted that I could play. Now I know what a gift it is.

He was a basketball junkie. Having his son play in this conference [the ACC] and be productive in this conference I think was something that was really special to him.

The main thing I told the players was we wanted to play good basketball, and we did. Then they threw the wild card at us.

They're going to run up and down, open up the floor, use their athleticism and play some exciting basketball. It should be fun. I just hope it's not too much fun.

We just try to give them all an attacking mentality. That's the whole thing is to play aggressive basketball.

We don't play basketball to give up 65 percent shooting in a half. That's why we put ourselves in the hole. We didn't following our scouting.