Gary Williams Played Quotations

In the second half the bench played really well. That was good to see, that they were able to come out and perform and get some significant minutes.

This is the first time in 28 years I've been in this situation. It's something I take personal responsibility for. He'll be missed because he's a four-year senior who has played on some really good teams.

If we had played great the first five minutes (of the second half), I think it would have been a lot easier. We got caught standing around on a couple of (their) offensive rebounds.

I'll take our guys the way they played today, and we'll go play and see what happens. We're 4-4 for the first half of the league. I think we're getting there toward playing the way we have to play now for the last eight games.

I think so. We got up 25 (points) there. We played pretty good basketball.

I thought we had a great stretch of basketball early in the second half. We played well enough to keep the lead. Hopefully this is the start of becoming a good basketball team.

If we played great the first five minutes, it would have been easier.

We knew this game was going to be close. Virginia Tech had played that way their first four games. We had to be tough. We weren't really sharp, but I was proud of the way the team came out at halftime. We played pretty well once we got going.

I played the first year (the 1966 season) this place opened. The way I look at it, I outlived this building.