Gabe Norwood Quotations

Nobody out here is having more fun than we are, and we wanted to keep it that way. Right now, it hurts. We didn't want this season to end this way. We wanted to be carrying the trophy out of here, but you can't win 'em all.

I think we definitely understand how great of a season it's been. But at this point right now, we're so close we wanted it, I know we all did. To say that we're satisfied, I can't. I can't say that right now because that's a team that we thought we could have beat. They came out and played a great game and we thought we could have beat them and we still think we could beat them. But we don't get another chance.

I think that's just me, the team and the coaching staff having so much fun. It's a once in a lifetime thing, so there's no point in getting stressed.

Our fight song was playing and our pep band wasn't even here yet. They did a good job, so I can't complain.

Our coaches have preached that the whole way through the tournament: Just have fun. There's no pressure on us. In earlier games, we could have lost by 30 to Michigan State and North Carolina and everybody wouldn't have been writing about us, and we would have just went home and this would have been done with. But we don't feel any pressure now that we're here. We can just go out and play.

That was the furthest thing on my mind two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, I was just hoping to get in. I thought of it every day since the day after we got in. When opportunity knocks, open the door. That's what we're trying to do, just walk through the door.

Wherever you are, you can hear it. Nobody on the team can imitate it. I don't think anyone has ever tried. He's got the copyright on that whistle.

We dug ourselves in a hole. We continued to play hard but when you're down 17 points with 10 minutes left, it gets a little tough.

Yeah, it was pretty funny. I don't know how he comes up with those things.

With a shooter like that, he's going to punish you.

We all believed. This is beautiful right now. We're just enjoying it right now.

Even our bookstore didn't have the greatest amount. We had a Jai Lewis jersey. I think that might have been it.

Anyone who watches enough college basketball and the NCAA tournament knows that it's never over until it's over. We're just a bunch of composed guys and we didn't buckle under the pressure. That's what's gotten us this far.

They were deadly out there. We thought we could beat them. We still think we could beat them. You just don't get a second chance.

A lot of us might not have been highly recruited. But we've played against guys of (Florida's) stature. It's not one of those things you could be intimidated by. If you love the game you should be having fun with it.

There were probably more people at practice than at our games. I know I've never practiced in front of 10,000 people before. To see everybody is just wild.

There's definitely no pressure on us. We're an 11 seed. We could have gone out and lost by 30 points and nobody would have said anything. All the experts would have been right. And we would have just gone home. This would have been over.

It's just the beauty of basketball. Anybody can come out and compete and earn themselves a national championship.

It was one of those things where we knew we needed to be balanced inside and out and we struggled hitting the 3 today and it hurt us.

That's the beauty of college basketball. Anybody can compete on the floor -- not just in the computers or polls -- and earn themselves a national championship.