Coach Mason has done a great job here. He's got a lot of young guys, and I really feel his program has grown up. He and Coach (Bubba) Griffey do a lot of work with those young guys. I think they're a very sound baseball team.

I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100 percent of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains.

I don't feel like we were the bad guys. We knew George Mason was a good team. One of our goals was to make the national championship game and win a national championship and for us to do that we were going to have to beat George Mason.

I have to get a feel for knowing these guys. I'm not that brilliant of a coach, I'll be the first to tell you. But I know that the more I see someone, the smarter I'll get and the more I'll learn. I have six weeks to watch it live and in person. Tapes are tapes.

I feel like I was hot tonight, but I didn't do it by myself. The guys did a good job of passing me the ball.

We feel we have a good young arm going against those guys, and the only way you're going to beat pitching is to match them pitch for pitch.