28 Quotes by Tim Buckley

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.

We try to recruit good players and good people.

Obviously you have to have talent in order to play so you can't overlook that, but we won't overlook the character issue when it comes to talent because if they have talent and they don't have character, it's going to be very difficult to coach that person.

We'll probably have to play the perfect game.

From a basketball mentality, he'll be where he needs to be when he comes back. The physical stuff is always going to take time.

He's a difficult match-up because he uses his body so well and he's very good around the basket. He's a very good position player. I think he's done a phenomenal job throughout the years of being able to draw contact when he shoots the ball.

I thought we battled when we needed to in order to keep it in reach.

Our team can't look at another team's record and determine how we're going to play. We didn't come mentally ready to play today at all. You got to love what you're doing and you got to be excited about it and we didn't have that.

I think he cleared his mind and played. I think he's got the confidence and belief back.