When we went to the media timeout with eight minutes to go, I just told everybody that we're down right now, but we have a run in us. Eventually, shots started to fall, we started to get stops, and we found ourselves back in the game.

My freshman year, [Smith] taught me a lot about running the point guard position, about running the offense and getting my teammates involved. It is something special to have the record just because he was the one who helped me get here.

We've been in (similar) situations a couple of times: earlier this year at Tulane and at SMU just recently. Tonight we just wanted to make sure that we handled the situation the way we were supposed to and close the game out.

Tonight we just wanted to handle the situation and close the game out.

He's telling me what's really going on. The media has gotten a lot right, but there's a lot we know that reporters can't know.

It's really about some really important topics that are being debated hotly right now in the media about Africa.