Look at Oklahoma. They start three seniors. They're a good basketball team. If people thought they were just going to go away, they (were wrong). You don't get ranked in the top five in the preseason if you don't have a good basketball team.
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We tried to keep two guys down around the block. Every now and then we would float somebody into the high post. We felt like if we could take care of the ball, get it on the rim, that we could do some damage there. We ended with 17 of them (offensive rebounds) and that gave us 17 more opportunities.Rick Barnes
I don't know what you guys (in the media) expected. This is the NCAA tournament. You think it's going to be a blowout, and it's not. Seeds mean nothing this time of year.
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Anyone close to our program knows the kind of kid and person he is. He knew a lot of the things that happened were his fault. He said he would fix it, and he did. I'm not sure I ever coached a player that spent as much time improving the kind of person he is as he did improving his basketball game.
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P.J. showed today why he's the player he is. Not only you look at his line, but defensively what he did for us. You love anybody as a coach that's going to give you everything he's got.
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They play with so much character and heart.
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Coming in, they were like us, a team that's up there. They start three seniors, and they are a good basketball team. If people thought they were just going to go away, you don't get ranked in the top five or six in the preseason if you don't have a good team.
Rick Barnes
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