He came here as a freshman and took his lumps, but the significant thing is that he's hung in there and believed in himself. Now he's reaping the benefits of his hard work early on.

He's our best low-post player. When you attack the basket, you need someone big and strong and aggressive to do it, and he's the man.

Chip had to take his lumps early on. But he has kept gaining strength and maturity. Now he is able to demonstrate to others how things should be done.

They worked hard and deserved the type of regular season they had, but it's over with. Now we go down to the tournament, and when you go to the tournament you go to win.

It was lunch-bucket, blue-collar, nothing fancy. They're a good defensive team. I thought we played well defensively, and we were a little more patient and knocked down a few more shots.

Derek does many things for us that don't show up in the box scores. I think that he is one of the best defensive players in the league, but doesn't get the recognition there because he doesn't get many steals.

It's a huge week. Hopefully we could be playing for a conference championship in that last game.

It was a very physical game that got out of control and that hurt our field goal percentage. It's tough to shoot when it's that physical of a game.

It seems like something here in Pershing Arena dictates it's going to come down to the last seconds. Maybe it's just a ploy by our players to get the crowd coming back.

They had some key breaks go their way, obviously.