Brandon Stockton Quotations

We feed off of his energy. When your best player comes in with high energy, it's like a domino effect. It goes through the rest of the team.

We didn't think anybody else for Tennessee was going to beat us.

We need to be consistent offensively and defensively. It's all about execution at this point. It's about making sure you take open shots and good shots and play hard on defense.

I was shocked at first. I was suspecting he was going to hug me or something, and I got the chest bump, too.

If we come out and do the little things, rebound and play defense and get up and down the court, we could do a lot of great things.

But we know what we have to do.

He tells us, no matter what happens after, it gets wiped off.

He gives that little extra effort. Some things people won't do like diving on the floor or diving for a loose ball. Those are the little extra things that some people don't do. That separates them.

He wasn't mad. He just told us to stay poised and have fun.

He can really shoot it. If you leave him out there and he puts it up, it will probably go in.

I think it's a great attack we have.

I think the guys know now this is how we can play.

I was kind of shook up over us not winning. I had four great years at UK and will miss it, but I've got to move on. I just basically quit watching basketball after we got beat.

I think they're actually playing a little more relaxed. Sometimes they were sort of timid when they got out there (as starters). ... I think they're coming in relaxed and giving us a lot more. These guys come in (off the bench), they're like instant offense.

We sat around and talked about it a little bit that we have nothing to lose because we don't have the No. 1 seed or a top three seed so we can just leave everything out on the court.

We just need to find a way to make things go right. It's all about us doing the right things. We have to do what we want to teams instead of letting them take the game away from us. It's not like we can't win if we do the right things and play the right way.

Big impact. We were kind of down. Those big blocks got our intensity picked up a little bit.

There was a lot of excitement in that locker room. We'd played our hearts out and left everything we had on the floor.

Sometimes you find guys that actually want to play you like it is a real game. You can tell these guys were all pretty serious about their basketball and they are used to having a good program here. But it was still a lot of fun and I just hope everyone enjoyed it as much as I did.

After you've been here for four years, you sort of know what coach wants. That's pretty much what he's trying to get through to some of the players on the team - just play within the system and the system will work.

A lot of guys were complaining of not doing what they want to do.

It's not that we're not happy to be here. We're very happy to be here. We're just focused on getting ready to play.

It's still in the back of our minds.

These games are just a lot of fun. We get to come out and meet a lot of people and see how these fans still support us even though our time at Kentucky is done.