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.

We've got an awful lot of stuff to cram in.

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

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 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.

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.