I think these guys have been through so much - normally, losing a player of Curtis' status would be devastating.

I think they are probably the best defensive team in the tournament, ... They are very well-coached, especially on the defensive end.

Do we pass up Mike to wait for Mustafa. That's what it came down to. We weren't going to pass up on Mike. We still tried to recruit Mustafa after that point and he told us that he wasn't interested.

I think they know how hard it's going to be to get any further than that.

At this point last year, we were in catastrophe mode. We were actually putting in new stuff, playing guys at different positions. ... I think we all were quietly apprehensive at this point last year, we didn't know what we were going to do.

I think we are a little bit more experienced, probably a little bit. We are very similar, but they are a lot different.

At the end, he was just exhausted. I turned to him and asked: Have you got one more in you?

I think we beat them on a good night. They're great. They deserve to be No. 1. They answered everything we did, we answered what they did and that's what made a great game between two outstanding teams.

It's really been an experiment to this point. So far, it's been working out.

Billy (Donovan) has done an incredible job getting this group together. I think what we all see in them this year is an outstanding team. They just really play off each other.