Jared Dudley Quotations

We're not here to look at what the analysts pick. If you pick that, that's great. But first things first - we've got Pacific.

We're just trying to get back to basics and get back to the style of play that we want to play. Obviously if you're on the outside looking in, it's looking like it's pretty bad. But we know what we have to do.

Making the Sweet 16 is a dream come true. Now we need to put it behind us and get ready for the next game.

People wanted to come out with a different mindset. We came out kind of flat and they definitely put it on us. We know we're just a better team and we played harder, and now at the end of the year, you want to get rewarded for all your hard work.

I expect us to be successful. I expect us to win, I don't care if you're playing at Duke or if you're playing at Connecticut. We expect to be the No. 1 team in the ACC.

We've finally got our heads above water. It's about time.

It comes from a lot of experience. The chemistry factor is real high on this team. It's just a mindset that we have. This team would rather play on the road. That's just the way it is.

I think a team with a lot of veterans and the success they've had, makes them dangerous.

I went to prep school and hoped a team would take a chance on me. It worked out. BC was there at the right time. They needed good players and it was a good fit for both of us. Basically it was good for both parties.

Our breakthrough game was Miami coming back the way that we did from the 14-0 run. This is a huge win coming down to North Carolina. I don't care how many people they lost from last year. To come down to this building in front of 20,000-plus is a huge win for us.

Playing a top ranked team like that with Dicky V and all that was great for us.

That doesn't get it done in the ACC.

Yeah, it's embarrassing. Full house, first ACC game at home and we lose by 20.

We always talk about that killer instinct. You don't want to trade baskets at this time of the year, and I thought for the first time all year we really put the hammer down.

We were embarrassed in our first ACC game. I know we'll get wins in this league. We can start Saturday against Florida State at home. You can't count this team out yet.

Turnovers will be the key, and we're going to really have to be good at playing defense in transition. It's just that they go small so quickly. But they'll try to press us early. It's going to be a little different from any other team we've played this year.

What happened (Thursday) tells you that you're not promised (today). On defense we didn't do a good enough job. I don't think we did a good enough job scouting for that. But all that matters right now is that we're ready to play our best game of the year.

We have to figure it out real quick. Time's not on our side. At 0-3 in the league, that's not going to get it done.

We're going to win more games in this league. We've just got to play our game.

We want a little payback, and we want a ring.

Craig definitely led us today, dominating the post.

It's a lot of stress off our backs. The pressure of getting that first one, that first home win, is gone now.

The biggest thing he showed me was his work ethic. He's done as much as he can in the weight room to get in better shape.

It's definitely embarrassing to come out here for our first ACC game (at home), and to be 0-3. I expected to do well in this league. We're 0-3, but we're going to get wins in this league.

It's huge. We felt like we should have won that game the last time, and now we get another chance. It's going to be great. We're going to have all of this media attention, Dickie V will be there, and we'll be on center stage.

They made a good run to come back. The refs helped them out. We expect that, being here in Carolina.

Against Pacific, we did a poor job adjusting to the way that their big man scored. We have to do a much better job of that. But right now I feel that we can go against (Montana's) best scorer (sophomore forward Andrew Strait) and get the win.

It's real sad and it just puts things in perspective for life.

At times we can be a good 3-point shooting team and at times we can be bad.

That's definitely our mind-set. Everything else would be a failure. We expect to be No. 1 in the ACC and, at the end of the day, be the No. 1 team in the country. Last year, we got up to No. 3. The only way you can do that is you have to keep improving.

Their team is very quick, very athletic and they try to use that strength to their advantage. We're going to use our strengths, too.

If you beat Duke, you know your seed goes up. Plus, we want a little payback. We want a ring.

I know everybody wanted to see that because Duke and North Carolina go way back, but we're the new team in the league and we're playing to win this thing, we're not going to give it up to anybody.

I didn't think the crowd affected our free-throw shooting or (that) the crowd affected the way we played. It was just North Carolina fans who love their team and wanted to come and support them. I wish one day we have that.

He's a rare player to come in the way he has and shoot the three ball without fear, and no one has to tell him to shoot the ball. He definitely has the confidence to shoot.

I don't listen to the crowd, but I'd probably boo if I was watching and we were down 20.

He can definitely shoot the ball. Look at his numbers. He hits 40 percent of his 3-pointers. When a guy gets going like he did, that's tough to defend.

You could definitely hear in his voice that he was sorry for what he did and he expressed that he had let us down and that he was trying to make up for it. So, hopefully, if he does everything right, the school will let him back in. I'm very confident he'll be back. I would be shocked if he did everything right and they did not let him back in.

The chemistry factor is really high on this team. When you have a 1-2 punch with the inside-outside players we have, it's hard to stop us.

You've got to have killer instinct. For the first time all year, we did that. You can't trade baskets, especially at this time because that's when you get beat.