Now the game has taken me back to Springfield and I am so deeply honored and humbled to be in such a sacred place.

The game has taken me back to Springfield and I am so deeply honored and humbled to be in such a sacred place.

[Williams and Price have retained their scholarships, but the suspensions eliminate them from team activities, including the trip to Springfield. The two continue to have access to academic resources.] Penalties have to be imposed, ... It was stupid and selfish. Mainly, it was non-thinking... It is serious because they violated other students' rights. For those who have notoriety, responsibility is part of that.

The game became much more physical than I would like to have seen. It reminded me of a Big East game probably back in the early '90s.

Rankings and polls and seeds and all that stuff, in the midst of a game, they don't count. You have to make shots, you have to get rebounds, you have to play defense.

Sometimes you're thrust into a game that all of a sudden evolves entirely differently than all your game plans. I thought we could take control of this game, and Kentucky kept fighting back. And that was not in the game plan.