A 16-day break is extremely long and it clearly affected us in this game. We missed a lot of easy shots and our free throw shooting was abominable.

9/11 was an incredible day for all of us. It impacted us tremendously but for Stephen it was part of the reason he became a firefighter and joined the National Guard.

It's an exciting and happy day for all of us.

It was just a tough day for us, and we couldn't get it to go down. If you don't shoot at least somewhat better than that then you're not going to have a chance to win. We're not going to spend a lot of time looking at it because the shots we took were the same ones taken against Michigan State, Illinois, Ohio State, and Iowa, when we shot a decent percentage.

We were hitting tonight. We took good shots, and we finished.

I think [the Georgia Tech game] helped this team grow up a bit. We bent but we didn't break.