Wendy Larry Quotations

We need consistency from more than one player. We need it from 7-8-9 down our bench. That's how you beat teams seeded higher than you in the tournament.

Maybe the odds were that that one wasn't going down this time. Honestly . . . we talked about this - you don't want to leave a whole lot of things to chance. You've got to find a way. And this basketball team has found a way.

I think it's a crapshoot as to whether we would get an at-large if we did not win the tournament.

I thought we were really back on our heels from the jump and didn't really compete with a very, very good George Washington team in the first half at all.

I think there are a number of things. We've really committed to the war on the boards, we've attacked the glass at both ends feverishly at times. We've gotten better defending the basketball. We weren't very good doing that when we started conference play, but we're getting better.

Some of the greatest teams that I've had the privilege of coaching have come into this building and really gotten drilled. For our little militia to come in here and fight and scrap and claw and do what they needed to do to stay into the game, I can't even begin to tell you how proud I am.

I wish I had my red shoes on. There's no place like home. There's no place like home.

It is difficult. We're looking at a team of all but two seniors that, I hope, have some great expectations of what we would like to accomplish in the future. I'd like to see this team take it to a different level, play with the monkey off their back and have some fun.

We forced them to play 'man.' We don't see it very often.

We said, 'It's not going to happen just because you're playing at home. You're going to have to go out and make it happen.'

The opportunity to lock up that No. 1 seed is coveted by so many teams in the conference. For us to do that this year under some of the circumstances and some of the obstacles we've dealt with is pretty amazing stuff.

Every place we walk into is like this. We're going to get their best shot and you know that going in, so what are you going to do about it?

Every single team that we played, bar one or two, had some exceptional talent on their team.

Duke now has speed and is as gifted athletically as they've ever been. They have a tremendous amount of depth.

North Carolina, on the bus ride home, will feel like they were in a war. I hope they do.

Across the board, Tennessee's size is significant. Now, if their bench continues to get more and more effective and help consistently, I can't imagine what it would be like down the road.

It's become a numbing factor. It doesn't matter.

Not only are we defending the crown for ourselves, we're going to try to play at home for our fans because they've been so, so supportive and they've traveled everywhere we've gone.

At times we played hard, but we didn't play effective enough. Unfortunately, we worked so hard to get back into it, at times we gave up such easy buckets.