This definitely gets the monkey off our backs.

It feels like we got that monkey off of our back. Now we can start playing and building momentum for the Pac-10 tournament.

That was definitely a monkey off our backs. Now that fear against Duke is gone.

Now the monkey is off their backs.

It's big to come and win here for the first time in history. It's definitely a monkey off our backs, but they still have to come to our place and then in the Big East tournament, so it's not over.

Talk about a monkey off of our backs. I had heard way too much about that streak, and it's just good to get it over with.