Jimmy Tubbs Quotations

Great players do that. We had no answer for him.

He might be pressing a little bit, but he has to keep working. We'll start the same lineup in East Carolina.

I thought we put a full game together tonight. We needed this for our confidence because we're getting into the grind of conference play, and when you shoot the ball like that it always helps.

I thought we were a little bit jittery in the first four or five minutes. But Memphis had a lot to do with that.

(Larry Sheppard) is one heck of a guard. I thought we did a pretty good job in every other aspect of the game, but we never stopped (Sheppard). He did what he wanted to all game.

Our record could be worse. But anytime you get a full deck of players, you should be excited about it. We didn't have that early in the year, and now we do.

I thought it was over and back. The official told me if he missed the call he was sorry. But that one call wasn't the reason we lost the game.

We've done a good job the last two years. We need better luck with our injury situation and we have gone through some things.

You have two excellent teams in Memphis and UAB. No question about that. But it's tournament time, and your kids get excited, and anything can happen.

Things in college basketball are a lot more competitive than they used to be. We've seen upsets all over the place. I'm just happy to have a full deck of cards and having Bryan Hopkins back.

Other kids were taking shots, they were just not making them.

Once we got it to overtime, I felt decent about our chances. To force overtime was a credit to character and that we played extremely hard.

A lot of times when you push a kid to the limit, they don't like that. But I think it's different with Chris. His kids really care about him, and I think that's important in the success of the coach.

It was a tough ballgame to lose. We had some opportunities, and we didn't capitalize on some of them.

That McDonald kid, he just went off for 39 points. Enough said.

It was like two movies -- a horror movie on offense, but defensively, hey, one of the better ones. So you got a two-for-one.

You want to go in and play well, period. You go in and make a good showing, and you're leaving the season with a good taste in your mouth.