Jared Dudley Quotes (21 Quotes)

I didn't think the crowd affected our free-throw shooting or (that) the crowd affected the way we played. It was just North Carolina fans who love their team and wanted to come and support them. I wish one day we have that.

We've finally got our heads above water. It's about time.

I went to prep school and hoped a team would take a chance on me. It worked out. BC was there at the right time. They needed good players and it was a good fit for both of us. Basically it was good for both parties.

Yeah, it's embarrassing. Full house, first ACC game at home and we lose by 20.

We're going to win more games in this league. We've just got to play our game.

We always talk about that killer instinct. You don't want to trade baskets at this time of the year, and I thought for the first time all year we really put the hammer down.

You've got to have killer instinct. For the first time all year, we did that. You can't trade baskets, especially at this time because that's when you get beat.

The chemistry factor is really high on this team. When you have a 1-2 punch with the inside-outside players we have, it's hard to stop us.

I know everybody wanted to see that because Duke and North Carolina go way back, but we're the new team in the league and we're playing to win this thing, we're not going to give it up to anybody.

Our breakthrough game was Miami coming back the way that we did from the 14-0 run. This is a huge win coming down to North Carolina. I don't care how many people they lost from last year. To come down to this building in front of 20,000-plus is a huge win for us.

The biggest thing he showed me was his work ethic. He's done as much as he can in the weight room to get in better shape.

It's huge. We felt like we should have won that game the last time, and now we get another chance. It's going to be great. We're going to have all of this media attention, Dickie V will be there, and we'll be on center stage.

It comes from a lot of experience. The chemistry factor is real high on this team. It's just a mindset that we have. This team would rather play on the road. That's just the way it is.

I don't listen to the crowd, but I'd probably boo if I was watching and we were down 20.

What happened (Thursday) tells you that you're not promised (today). On defense we didn't do a good enough job. I don't think we did a good enough job scouting for that. But all that matters right now is that we're ready to play our best game of the year.

That's definitely our mind-set. Everything else would be a failure. We expect to be No. 1 in the ACC and, at the end of the day, be the No. 1 team in the country. Last year, we got up to No. 3. The only way you can do that is you have to keep improving.

At times we can be a good 3-point shooting team and at times we can be bad.

You could definitely hear in his voice that he was sorry for what he did and he expressed that he had let us down and that he was trying to make up for it. So, hopefully, if he does everything right, the school will let him back in. I'm very confident he'll be back. I would be shocked if he did everything right and they did not let him back in.

I expect us to be successful. I expect us to win, I don't care if you're playing at Duke or if you're playing at Connecticut. We expect to be the No. 1 team in the ACC.

It was a hell of a play.

Craig definitely led us today, dominating the post.