We started extremely slow. We turned the ball over. We really came out flat. Every quarter we got a little tougher mentally.

This isn't a negative, but he's not Larry Hughes. They're similar-type players, but he's not Larry Hughes.

This is not an easy business folks, ... Disaster management is not a matter of reading a guide book and then showing up in the middle of a small town that has just been blown off the map by tornadoes.

This is not an individual game so we need the other four players on the team to step up for us.

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Z played great tonight. He was 15-of-16 from the line, but I don't remember the one he missed. He called a play for himself in the huddle down the stretch and was the key tonight. He made some big plays.

That's good they (Washington) want to play us. I'd probably want to play us too if I was them.

That team came in here on a mission to kick our behind, and they did. They felt confident, they were focused. We just got beat from Eddie Jordan on down.

The most important thing is to find out if they are actually in circular orbits,

I wanted to go to the biggest conference I could. The SEC is one of the best conferences in the country and when I went down there, they treated me really good and I really liked the players and coaches who I met.