Cedric Simmons Quotations

I got some confidence that I can play with the best. I can hang with the best in the country, but I still have some things to learn. I still have to get stronger. But I can go into practice with something to work on.

We just have to execute in the last five minutes like we have done all game. It's not from a lack of effort on anyone's part, but we just seem to get in a hurry on both ends of the court.

We've got to learn how to finish. It was kind of the same thing that happened at the Carolina game. But I got some confidence and I learned that I can play with the best.

He showed a lot of heart just to come out and play. After the game, I kind of said I hope everything goes well. I don't think he heard me. I don't know.

Just about everything went our way, and that was a good feeling out there. We made too many turnovers (21), but we made some good things happen, too.

It feels great to win. The first win is always big in the tournament, and this gives us confidence. But it's only one win. We didn't come here just for one win. We came here for the whole thing.

I thought it was going in actually. I've seen a lot of teams get beat this year on the same situation, same shot. My heart kind of stopped.

That was just a great block by him. It was definitely a big play.

My calves were cramping up, both of them. So I couldn't really elevate on my shot like I usually do.

Me, personally, I felt like we had to make a statement.

We had held our own until that happened. We just couldn't make the plays at the end and they made all their free throws.

We were kind of confused on what to do. Everybody wasn't on the same page. We've just got to learn how to finish games better.

We were driving to the basket, had some good low post action and we ran our offense very well.

It was very frustrating. I feel like I could have made a difference, but I had to sit out.

Anytime a guy scores 41 points, it gets your attention. We wanted to put different guys on him, and we tried to get him from getting deep post catches, and tried to play on his right hand.

They really jumped on us hard at the beginning. We didn't get the stops when we needed them. They had a couple of transition baskets that kind of killed the whole momentum (after our comeback).

I told him it didn't matter. I had Michael Drum on me.

It's not a game plan, it's our style of defense.

I looked at it as a statement. They were ranked pretty high and they beat Maryland. I look at it like an NCAA tournament win.

I heard that roar. What? They got beat by Miami, right? Oh man. I told you anybody can get beat by anybody.

I had a good game, but I was trying to lead my team to a victory. Even though we came up short, I had one of my best games on both ends of the floor.

I decided since it was my birthday I was going to shoot it anyway.