Mark Gottfried Game Quotations

We're going to leave this game here - we're not taking this one with us. We didn't play very well today, and Mississippi State was terrific.

I thought the game was over. I'm a complete idiot. I was jumping up and down like a fool out there. I thought Gee's basket won the game for us.

I think Richard has really stepped his game up. He's in better condition now, and that's helping him be a lot more effective.

I think they're a top 15 team in the country. I'm not sure there are 15 teams better than them. We had key defensive stops at key times. Collectively, the defense won the game for us.

We're not thinking about the NCAA tournament. We're thinking about playing a game at Ole Miss. Period. It doesn't do any good to start all that speculation. It's way too early.

We wanted to take advantage of an opportunity if it was there. We didn't want to just make the game an absolute helter-skelter, run-up-and- down. But we didn't want to turn opportunities down either. And we had a bunch of them.

Brewer for a couple of minutes just absolutely took the game over.

Every game is like the absolute biggest, hugest game. It's like the Super Bowl. There are so many teams around the country that are in that same position. You just have to go play. The kids are having fun. This is the best time of the year. This is what you play for.

Sometimes the game comes out to one shot, and I know he'll be thinking about that shot all night long. It's just part of the game.

This game came down to the backboards. We played our big lineup, and I'm disappointed we had that effort.

They made every shot they needed to even if the shot clock was running down, hitting tough ones. They really played about a flawless game from my perspective.

The last four games, Darrel Mitchell has averaged about 26 or 27 points a game (actually 24.5), and we felt like against a zone he would find too many holes and get loose. We went to the zone once in the first half and he buried a 3 on us. I just felt like with Darrel Mitchell, right now, at the level he's been playing, we just needed to be body to body with him for 40 minutes.