John Brady Guys Quotations

Certainly our team has a nice confident way about it right now. The execution we showed tonight and the way we shot the ball and rebounded the ball was quite good. I can't pay enough compliments to these three guys here and the rest of our team.

I'm sure Billy's telling his guys and they're watching tape, (saying) 'If you're not careful, LSU will board you and jump over you and jump over you and get easy baskets. I'm sure they're trying to eliminate those opportunities as we're trying to create more of them in that game Saturday.

You know, everybody gets fortunate in their lives, and this is a great moment for me personally, but it's also a great moment for a bunch of guys who really deserve it, how hard they worked. This is a special team. Youth marches on.

We've produced some of our thoughts on where some of the payments sit and said 'you guys go away and respond to that'.

We did a nice job of handling the first five to seven minutes of the game. We told our guys Duke was going to come out in those first few minutes and try to get us on our heels and that if we could work through that we'd be in good shape. That's what happened. A tone was set and I think they knew they were in for a contest all night.

They stayed with the double team. A lot of guys hedge him high and then run back. They stayed with it and made him give the ball up.

Darrel Mitchell is without question the most valuable player in the SEC in my opinion. He is the most consistent player. Other guys may have had better games, but he has good game and after good game and has not had an off night yet.

I'm the luckiest guy in the world to coach a group of guys like this.

These guys grew up together. I think that's unique in college basketball. Maybe not as unique as it would be for New York or Chicago, where you have millions of people in a small area, but we don't have millions of people in our state.

The care and concern that these guys have for one another because of how long they have known each other and each other's families and their backgrounds, I think all of that makes a difference.