Billy Donovan Deal Quotations

We're sitting up here as national champions, but I don't necessarily believe we're the best team. In a one-shot deal like this, I've been on both sides. I've been heartbroken, and now we're national champions.

I can tell you that these kids have a great deal of love and concern and care for one another.

Our guys have to be able to handle that pressure. There are a lot of distractions. There is a lot of tugging and a lot of things you have to deal with that are different from the regular season. I want them to enjoy where they are at because it is the pinnacle of college basketball to get to this point. At the same time, you have to keep the focus there and put yourself in position to play the best basketball.

Our options are getting smaller and slimmer. We've got to make due with what we've got. We've had some things we've had to deal with.

We'll have to deal with being ranked one, two or three in the country. These are the kids I would love to deal with those challenges with.

We all deal with issues and challenges. This is a game where we needed different people to step up.

This year people have made a bigger deal of our chemistry or unselfishness because we're a little more balanced.

We have to deal with what's at hand right now.

It was great to see him shoot the basketball and let it go with the confidence he did. The biggest thing I look at with Lee is the confidence level he's shooting the ball with. Tonight, he was just letting it go and shooting it with a great deal of confidence.

I'm concerned a little bit that it may go through our team. If anybody does come back positive, we'll try to start them on some antibiotics. This is the time of year, but I don't use that as an excuse. . . . We all have to deal with challenges and different things that happen throughout the course of the year.