Louis Hinnant
Louis Hinnant
both good took turn
We both took it personally. We wanted to go out with a bang. We wanted to turn it around, and we did a pretty good job.
knew last playing sharing
We knew we weren't that kind of team. We just wanted to get to playing like last year, sharing the ball.
aware secrets
We know what they want to do. There's going to be no secrets in this game. There's nothing we're not aware of and the same thing with them.
building motivating nobody rooting sort
We are kind of the underdogs. Nobody in this building is really rooting for us, and I think guys, they used that as sort of a motivating factor.
confidence
We probably have more confidence than we've ever had.
dangerous definitely pacific success team understand
We definitely have to look at Pacific first and understand that they are a very dangerous team that has had success in this tournament.
ridiculous
As ridiculous as this sounds, you want to keep him under 40.
anybody blow win
This is how we win every game. We never blow anybody out. We're used to it.
altitude deal facing people schedule team travel
I think that people are making a big deal out of the travel schedule and the altitude and things like that. Every team that's here, we're facing the same situation.
afford higher legitimate method ourselves played reason sort sure
I thought we played well enough to afford ourselves that opportunity. But there's always some sort of method to their madness. I'm sure there's some sort of legitimate reason why we didn't get a higher seed.
everybody far few guaranteed last ncaa together tournament tried understood whatever
I think that everybody collectively got together and we understood that it was just our last few minutes. You're only guaranteed this one game, as far as the NCAA tournament is concerned. We just tried to get whatever we had left.
craig half job open outside second shots
I think in the second half we did a better job of making our outside shots and we were able to open it up for Craig and Jared.
atmosphere forward guys situations tend
I think some guys on our team, they look forward to situations like this. We tend to play better in a road-type atmosphere for some reason.
neither playing potential seen
He had some things to say because we weren't playing up to our potential. This meeting, he was really animated. Me and Craig, we've been here the longest. Neither one of us has seen him like that.