Roy Williams Freshmen Quotations

Somebody asked me if I thought our freshmen had hit the wall. At every tough practice, or tough loss, I think they think it's the wall. It's just that there's a lot of walls out there for you.

(Hansbrough) is very focused. He works extremely hard. He battles as hard as any freshman I have ever been around. Ever. ... You usually don't find freshmen with that kind of attitude and work ethic. That's a great quality.

You never know when your freshmen come in how hard they're going work, how they're going to adjust to bigger, quicker players. His work ethic was something I thought was really good and it's far surpassed even what I thought. He's a phenomenally gifted kid who wants to get better, who treats every play like the last and you don't find many freshmen who do it like that.

It was really frustrating because I think the freshmen particularly could have gained so, so much. For example, I think Tyler and Michael did. But the rest of them didn't gain nearly as much as they could have because of the health situation.

The games -- I'd like to say it helped our freshmen -- but they're like a MASH unit now.