This is a group that likes to play, and more importantly, they really like one another. I'm very, very proud of them.

It shows we can beat a quality team. Our ability to play well against N.C. State, hopefully, will give us some confidence going into the Florida State game.

We knew he was a very good player, and obviously he showed that to us again. We didn't do a good job of finding Rice. When we did find him, we sort of looked at him while he handed us a 3. We went man-to-man in the second half because of his shooting ability.

All you have to do is look at the rebounding stats. That was the story of the game. You get one [shot] and they get two, it's really hard to win.

We've got four guys trying to move into whole new roles and that can be frustrating at times. We as coaches had the choice to play in this tournament, to play good teams and test our abilities early on. I think we're learning early what we need to work on later in the season.

He's a big shot-maker at the end of the game. So is Reynolds. You've sort of got to pick your poison. That's the way we decided to go, and has been our wont lately, it ended up being poison.