“With it being 1 and 2, I'm not going to say it's going to put a lot of pressure on both teams. But it's going to be tough. Everyone wants to be No. 1.”
“It was a big goal. During the off-season, we've been working on the things that we needed to improve on. We got better throughout practices and games. We came up with it, and we deserved it for working so hard.”
“It doesn't matter who we play. We're just going to go out and play Carolina basketball. If it's Maryland, we play Maryland. If it's Duke, we play Duke. It doesn't matter.”
“We weren't as focused as we usually are. We opened the game flat, but I guarantee we won't be like that tomorrow. We're going to come out and play Carolina basketball.”