D. James Played Quotations

We are a legitimate final-four team. We have played a difficult schedule against a lot of bigger schools. And we have had players not available for certain games. One of our best players was in Argentina for four games. We had a lot of our losses during Christmas break when a lot of kids were away for vacation. Our record was deceiving, so very deceiving.

I feel we played real hard today. We play a lot of close games but keep playing through it and fighting back.

We knew it was going to be a grind-it-out game. It's always been every time that we have played Milwaukee.

Unemployment is low, wages are growing at a healthy pace and interest rates remain stable. Retailers have also played their part by discounting heavily.

Both teams played fairly well considering it was the first game and kind of bitter out.

They played a tremendous second half; it was a tremendous game. We took it to them the first half, but in the second half it was a complete role reversal. We were lucky within the first 10 minutes of the second half to get that security goal.

I just told the referee to cut it right there. We didn't have enough players, and it was going to be a blowout. We played four games with only 11 guys. They were physically exhausted.

You can't take nothing away with how hard they played tonight. Any dog, you put him in the corner, no matter if they're vicious or not, they're going to bite back.

The last five games we played ended by halftime. Today it looked like we don't have the depth to go that 80 minutes.