• Last year, we ran over some guys at least 5 times, and we’re going to try not to do that this time.
  • We’re going to try to get around guys without running through them.
  • The kid’s (Brad Davison) a good defensive player.
    • I think he sold the referees on a couple of those charges that he drew that were questionable, but we’ve moved on. We’re not going to concentrate on that.

Beating Wisconsin…

• We’ve got to do a good job of moving the ball and putting ourselves in situations where we don’t draw charges.
• They play with their heels on the 3-point line or toes on the 3-point line, and they kind of pack it in, not Virginia-style, but similar to that.
• They step in and take charges.
  • They’re always in the right place, so we’ve got to do a good job of driving and going off of two feet instead of going off of one leg.
  • Hopefully, we won’t get those calls.

Devon Daniels picking up charges…

• Last year, a lot of teams drew charges on him because he’s a one-leg leaper.
• We have done a lot of stuff this summer and also in practice making sure he goes off 2 feet and avoids the contact.

Memphis…

• We took a lot from it.
• When you look at the 1st half, it was a great game.
• Then you look into the last six minutes of the 1st half, we had complete blown assignments in ball screen coverage.
  • The game really changed when we had to take D.J. and Manny out of the game, and then they kind of blew it open before the half.
• We gave up 55 points which is not what we want to do, but the encouraging thing is our 2nd half was so great. We held them to 28 points.
• In the 2nd half, we shared the basketball, got our big guys back in the game and had our chances to win the game at the end.
• It was two different halves. I don’t want to see that first half ever again, but I’m encouraged by the second half, and hopefully we can build on that.
• That was the 1st time that we were down 16, 17 points. What was encouraging was that our guys stayed together.
  • Through every timeout, we would tell them, ‘Hey, you’re back in the game. You don’t have to take some of those shots.’ You have to take some chances when you get down that much, and we said, ‘Stay the course.’ I think the biggest thing for our guys is just putting them in situations where we’ve done some situation stuff: up 15 and down 15, how do we play, how do we handle it. Those type of things can win you the game.

Wisconsin Head Coach Greg Gard…

• He’s done a great job. Took over for a really good coach. They’re a good basketball team.
• They didn’t have a good weekend, but you can say that about a lot of teams around the country by the way they play in these tournaments.
• Marquette’s usually a good program, and they played extremely well against those guys.
• They haven’t been shooting the ball well, and we hope that that continues, but certainly they’re a very capable team.
• Reuvers is playing at a high level. He’s 7’0″. He’s tough to guard.
• Davison’s a very good player.

Markell Johnson…

• I think he’s playing well.
• What I wonder about a little bit is his conditioning.
• He played well up until the last 2 or 3 minutes of the game where he made a couple of mistakes that he normally wouldn’t make, and a lot of that is probably because he got tired.
• With a short bench, I’ve got to figure out how to get him and C.J. Bryce some breaks every now and then.
  • That may be even putting in a couple of walk-ons just for a few minutes just to give those guys some breaks.

The ACC…

• The ACC is the #1 conference in the country, and we certainly look forward to these challenges.

Pat Andree struggles against Memphis…

• It was a tough matchup for Pat.
• I expect Pat to bounce back.
• We need him.
• He’s a guy that can score the basketball.
• We couldn’t play him as much in the Memphis game because of defensive breakdowns, but hopefully he can contribute in this game.