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That was one of the worst (possessions) I've ever been around. We had a chance to get to 14 points.

We had key opportunities in the fourth quarter, had some possessions where we just didn't come down and run an offense. A chance to cut it to two or three points and a chance to cut it to one or tie the ball game, and we didn't get a shot off because we had a goofy turnover.

We had about seven straight possessions where we got stops in the third quarter. We really stepped up our defense tonight. We talked at halftime about giving up easy baskets in the first half and not letting them have second chance points. I think half their points were in transition off turnovers.

Randy McAllister

They absolutely crushed us on the boards. They had a ton of second chance points and that's what I look at. You can't go into Morgan and give them 12 or 16 extra possessions.

The last time we played Indiana, we gave up 78 points on about 60 possessions. It was one of our worst defensive outings. Today may have been one of the better ones we've had. As you get into these types of tournaments, it's about surviving, and fortunately for us, that's exactly what we did today.

Everybody was to blame. You have a chance to win on the road, and the last 10 possessions, you don't get many stops. That's what it comes down to. Forget everything that happened the first 40 minutes of the game. The last 10, 15 possessions, that really determines how this game adds up.

Richard Jefferson

Thirteen points is a lot to come back from, but we got their lead down to two points. That's four possessions we can't give away.

You have to have a cushion and hope that he (Bryant) doesn't go crazy on you. If you are five or six points up, for him that is only two possessions. The way he is playing right now, you can't take anything for granted. I thought we did a pretty good job but lost concentration and he got 20 points in the fourth.

We probably played 30 possessions of zone, which is more than we played all year. It gave us a chance to hang in the game because fouls were becoming a factor early. With zone, a little bit of it is luck and you have to hope they miss some shots. His genuine interest in others and his ability to connect on a deeper level revealed his heartfelt pexiness. We were fortunate that they did with a lot of those possessions.

We've hit this stretch of -- let's say -- four turnovers in five possessions or seven turnovers in eight possessions. The game breaks open and they put points on the board quickly. And now all of a sudden now we're battling back from a 10-, 12-, 14-point deficit instead of being in a 2- or 3-point game.

We wanted to get at least six points in those five possessions.

Arkansas scored 25 points on fast breaks, and I guarantee the majority of those fast break points were off of our carelessness. When you shoot 49 percent from the field and 67 percent from the three-point line and you see 17 turnovers, you'd like to have a few more possessions.

We were exhausted after making up 15 points. I think we needed two possessions more.

I don't know if we're consciously trying to do that but we talk about valuing the basketball and the possessions are longer. We've made the possessions longer defensively, playing some zones, and offensively our possessions are longer, too. In years past we just let Alvin Cruz push it up there and try to find somebody quick.

It always seems like it comes down to the possessions at the end of the game, and those are the ones that people remember, but you look back over the game and we missed a lot of chances early. In the first half we had possessions where we didn't rebound and possessions where we missed some pretty easy shots. Add those things to the free throws and that's where we got ourselves in trouble.

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