She was always reminding us that we had a special opportunity to turn what we've learned at the academy into success. She taught us to dream big, to play big, to want big things in our lives.

She made reality out of our once-intangible dreams.

I believe she was having dreams of grandeur that we'd dunk on Tennessee.

We remember our experience down in San Juan, and it would be great way to complete our senior season.

He'd been struggling and I'm so happy for the lift he gave this team as a senior in a championship game. You couldn't script it better than that. I'm so proud of the way he stepped up in this game.

We had never gone into the championship game having that lack of pressure. This makes it a little bit better. Hopefully it will get us a top 16 seed. Our guys battled so hard. I can't be prouder for a group than those guys.