Jamie Dixon Inside Quotations

For most people, he's a surprise. But for people inside our program who have seen him and seen where he's come from, we really had high expectations for him this year.

We were very efficient in the second half. We wanted to get it inside to Aaron from the start. We missed some easy ones early. Our patience was good in the second half. We used the clock and got shots at the end of the clock, which can wear down teams. We really had good clock management.

We didn't shoot it great tonight and a lot of that has to do with the zone. I thought we got the ball inside when we wanted to. I thought we did a good job attacking but don't read too much into it. It was two teams playing hard and we came up a little bit short.

I know when people looked at our inside guys on paper before the season, they wouldn't be in awe. But I always told people we were going to be all right.