Kelvin Sampson Time Quotations

We couldn't have played any better for 34 minutes. We had the crowd out of the game. It's disappointing. This one is hard to handle because I thought we outplayed them for a long time and they outplayed us the last 6 minutes.

This is the first of my 12 teams at Oklahoma that have practiced harder than they played. They practiced and competed hard this week. But come game time they didn't play as hard as they should have.

There's a reason why we won the league last year - these two guys here and the way they played. This is the first time all year that these guys played the same way.

It seems this topic comes up every year on the conference call since Syracuse won the national championship. We see a lot of zone for obvious reasons -- because we have a hard time making 3s.

I have no desire to go anywhere. I have a desire to make my team better. . . . It ain't time for me to go yet.

I just think he's a good player that fills a need for us. Every time he and I have talked, I left with a good feeling.