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Roy Williams - "I've said all year long we're an experienced team, and when you're a veteran team, a little deficit like that (four points) at halftime shouldn't bother you. Big deficits shouldn't bother you, because it's a 40-minute game. But the one thing I've admired about this team the entire season is our toughness, mentally as well as physically. We don't have Scot, then all of a sudden B.J. is sitting over there with four fouls. And we're playing a small lineup in there half the time just trying to get to the next TV timeout. I took Raef out and let him stay over there for a while after he got his fourth foul, but I wanted him the last four minutes. And if he fouls out, he fouls out. We go to the free throw line, and it was tough. They intentionally fouled B.J. He misses both. A few minutes later they foul Ryan. He misses both. And then I think our toughness got in there, because Raef stepped up big-time and made six in a row. Jacque made a couple. Jerod made a couple. T.J. made some. I think those were the big plays of the game. "Both teams played good defense. I'd like to think we're a good defensive club, and I know Iowa State is a good defensive club. But they play a little bit of a different defense than most people play, and yet they play it very effectively, and it gave us some problems. In the first half we were doing too much jump shooting and not getting the ball to Raef. Then after the first six or seven minutes of the first half we did a better job and got it in there where we wanted to. "Paul was big in the second half. One time he pulled up and shot a six-foot jump shot, and if Cato wasn't in the game he could have taken it all the way to the basket. But you have to respect their club and what they do defensively, and it does take you out of sync a little bit. "You got to talk about Dedric Willoughby. Those last two threes, somebody said, 'Do you want to put somebody else on him?' But there was no man alive, including Michael Jordan, who could guard him better than Jerod did on those two shots, but he made both of them. He just had a heck of a day. He was nine for 16 from the three-point line, and several of those were really guarded." ISU coach Tim Floyd - "I thought Dedric Willoughby was outstanding shooting the ball. I wished he had taken better care of the ball, though. "At time we were our own worst enemy. We had some key turnovers in the second half. "When Kelvin Cato picked up his fifth foul, that was a pivotal point in the game. That was another rebounder not in the game."