Tony Skinn
Tony Skinn
Tony Oludewa Skinnis a Nigerian American professional basketball player, and a former college basketball player, who played starting guard for the George Mason University Patriots. Skinn was born in Lagos, Nigeria...
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We've been trying to prove ourselves all year. We heard what the critics were saying -- that we didn't belong in the tournament. The confidence level has risen, and we've gotten a chance to show the country what we're capable of.
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To be out there in front of that many people, I see why they have an open practice. If we went out there seeing that many people for the game, we'd be shocked.
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We are all business when we are on the floor.
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Well, being from our conference, I know they're rooting for us, anyway.
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We weren't supposed to beat Michigan State, and we beat them. We weren't supposed to beat North Carolina, and we sure weren't supposed to beat Connecticut. So I think we're going to just stick with the script. If folks want to call us a Cinderella, then that's OK.
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We weren't nervous. We were just out there having fun. We weren't worried about the crowd or anything. We were just playing basketball.
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We've kind of used that to our advantage a little bit because we're capable of playing with anybody in the country. The stage we're on now is our opportunity to show everybody we can play. We'll just stick to it and run with it.
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Even though we are far from home, I think we have just about everybody cheering for us. It's definitely to our advantage. Whenever we score or do something, we're going to hear the crowd roar.
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Seeing him be so happy kind of motivates us to know that basketball is a game of fun. You get too serious and get too tense, you might have jitters on the court, so we're trying to stick to that mode of having fun. It works for us.
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Coach told us when we got into the tournament that teams like that -- Michigan State, North Carolina -- they are supposed to beat us. With that on them, that is a lot of pressure. They have to make all the shots. The pressure is on them to do that.
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Coach told us when we got into the tournament that teams like Michigan State and North Carolina are supposed to beat us. With that on them, that's a lot of pressure for them.
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Coach told us when we got into the tournament teams like Michigan State, North Carolina, they are supposed to beat us. Fortunately for us, we came out and played the way we have been playing all year and got the win.