29 Quotes by Ernie Kent

What a gutsy performance. I can't say enough about how they battled.

With this conference as tight as it is, there are going to be nights when you've got to get lucky. I've been on both sides of it. We'll take it and move on.

We wanted to win the game but wanted to manage the game as well. Certainly, when we were up 20, I wanted some of our guys to rest their legs. We had to manage the game.

Nobody will think about it at all. But from where it came from to get to this point is just incredible to me.

I would expect both of those kids to help us. To what extent, I won't know until we get them here.

But from the perspective of a dad, I soul-searched and said to myself, here was someone who's very gifted and wants to try something.

I don't think it's make or break, but we want to play well. If it's four straight or two straight, you want to protect your home court. Stanford and us are the only teams to be undefeated at home, and we want to keep it that way. The schedule turns in our favor. It doesn't matter if it's at home in the middle of the season or late, you want to win at home.

For us, it's move forward. If he comes back it will be a plus for us.

We're only one game over .500, so I'm not going to send those expectations out of the roof. There's a lot of basketball left; let's just keep getting better game by game.