We have a group of great guys, ... We don?t have any egos on this team. We don?t have any jerks on this team. We have a group of guys that makes it fun for everybody to come to work every day.

We have a good defensive team. You have a good group of guys who made the team defensively so I wasn't surprised we went out there and played well.

I'm fortunate to coach an unbelievable group of guys who have been totally selfless. They've been all about the team, and all about winning. ... I'm happy that I can be a part of the first-ever national championship.

This was the easiest team to coach because these guys were the most focused group. We had no off-court issues and no problems of any kind in terms of trying to motivate.

The thing is the guys battled. They didn't stop. I think the team as a group are fairly resilient, fairly together. I don't see them cracking in spite of any of the adversity we face.

You might have to go back to Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, that group [of mid-'60s Dodgers], or the group Baltimore had in '66.