We were going to foul in the six- to five-second range. But he had such an easy route all the way to the top of the key.

[The lack of a second point guard] is clearly our Achilles' heel on this team. When Marcus wasn't distributing the ball as well [like in the overtime loss to Syracuse last Thursday in New York], we struggle. There is no more important player in the Tournament.

You can look back to five or six years ago when scholarships got trimmed from 15 to 13 ? I think that created a lot of parity around the country. Maybe those guys who may have gone to bigger schools now were more receptive to coming to a smaller university and being the big fish in a small pond.

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

Someone has said $1 million, but no one knows. But five to six acres of oysters is a lot of oysters. It all depends on how many people will be fishing out there, too, and what the prices are.

He's 25. This is his second year in this system. I think it took (Philadelphia Eagles quarterback) Donovan (McNabb) five years in his system to really reach the heights that he reached last year. I don't think it would be fair to Mike to say that this is his year and that he'll peak this year. The guy is continuing to climb. He's a ways away from his potential, but he's pretty darn good.