Ryan Appleby Quotations

We just have to get ready to go. We have to treat every game like we're playing Arizona. We have to come out ready to play.

He just came out and played like he could play. We all know he can play like that night-in, night-out and that's what he's done; just stepping up the last couple games and carrying us.

I think it was our best all-around team effort. Everyone got after it defensively. Everyone was shooting well.

We just came out lackadaisical for some reason instead of trying to put them away.

We just kept trying to weather the storm. It was a sea of red.

Everybody in the program knew what type of player he was, and we all knew he was going to have a great year. He's really improved his outside shot this year, and he's able to hit that 3-pointer consistently. That's made defenses come out on him, and then he uses his quickness and strength to drive by them.

The second half we did a better job, but it's tough to win on the road when you turn the ball over like that. We kept fighting at the end, but we dug ourselves a hole.

That three-ball kind of knocked them out there.

This is big. For us to get two road wins against two really good teams shows we are a team to be reckoned with in the Pac-10.

This is the NCAA Tournament. It doesn't get any more exciting than that.

It was at North Carolina State, it was an early game and it didn't feel like I thought it would. There wasn't a lot of media and not a lot of crowd.

They came out fired up and their fans were really into it. We knew anytime you're on the road in a big arena, against a really good team, you've just got to weather the storm. When you get a chance to make your run, you've got to go for it, and that's what we did.