Roy Williams Tyler Quotations

We feel fantastic about the win. We got contributions from a lot of people, particularly off the bench. I actually thought that Tyler could have played a lot better, and, then you look at the stats, and see 21 points and seven rebounds. That tells you the type of marvelous year he's having so far.

Tyler was something in the second half. We talked about trying to drive the ball to the basket and try to get good spacing and I think we did a much better job of that in the second half. We tried to stay fresh on J.J. but he got some good looks and just missed them.

It was really frustrating because I think the freshmen particularly could have gained so, so much. For example, I think Tyler and Michael did. But the rest of them didn't gain nearly as much as they could have because of the health situation.

You like the way you can compete and execute down the stretch, but we do feel very fortunate. We thought Tyler was very big again inside, to say the least, and Danny made some big baskets for us as well. Survive and advance, that's what we're trying to do.