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.

Magnificent is a good word. He put on one of the better performances I've seen in quite a while.

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.

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.