Coach
Well, obviously today was a great game. When I saw that we drew Georgia, I think like any coach in my position you almost question what just happened in Atlanta. When we watched how they played in those four games against three NCAA teams you saw they were playing at a very high level. You knew coming into the game it was going to be a war. ... Georgia played a very good first half and we played an equally bad half. I think our NCAA tournament experience from before...helped us.

I also though, crediting Georgia for an excellent finish, you can't help but think it was to our advantage what they just went through. The longer the game the more we wear them down...

Hopefully we can put a full game together as we move into the second round, but I'm very proud of these four seniors.

I really felt like we played a really good team. They have a senior guard. They came in playing with as much confidence as any team in the tournament.

We were a little tight in the first half. Not really sure why. ... We played an excellent team. I thought the big difference was we attacked a lot more in the second half. When you look at the free throw differential, that is more our style of play. We normally make more free throws than our opponents attempt. ... That is a big stat for us, being able to get to the foul line and making them at a high percentage.

I think our defense really wore down Georgia.

I think Dante' Jackson's shot coming off the bench was the biggest play of the game.

I mean I guess I gotta ask the question: When will I not answer a question about that game a year ago. We played a second round game against Ohio State. They were in the national championship. We played a great game and then we went home like every team does when they lose. ... The thing that that game did was made us very hungry to get back to the postseason. We had several players that played in that game, but we are a completely different team. ... When that jump ball goes up there is no one on our team thinking about Greg Oden. We're thinking about the team we're playing.

I'm excited, as i know our team is, to have an opportunity to play in the round of 32. We're gonna play Baylor or Purdue and when that game starts it's about this year, it's about making the Sweet 16.

That first game, especially that first half of the first game, in our case playing the noon game, you lose this game it's almost like you never made the tournament. It was on us quickly. Our team was ready, I just through we played against a team in Georgia that had big bodies, a great senior guard playing with confidence...and that had more to do with the score at halftime.

Stanley Burrell
[Gaines] is a really good player. Better than what I've seen on film. He's strong, he's physical, he's good at playing at his own pace. ... He's poised. my guys were behind me 100 percent and in the second half I was able to get out and make some plays.

Josh Duncan
Yeah we didn't play our best in the first half but we're a team that's been through a lot of tough situations and we're a team that stays together. ... We came out in the second half a totally different team.

Drew Lavender
We're in the same position as last year, we have a great team, we're going to go against Purdue or Baylor. We're just going to play hard and see what happens.

Drew Lavender
Our defense created more opportunities on offense. We got to running and we got some easy buckets which we didn't get in the first half. We turned up the defense which created some offense.

Georgia

Dennis Felton
I'd like to commend Xavier. They were every bit as good and tough as I thought they were coming into the tournament.

I got the impression that they were a really, really hard-nosed team.

I did feel like our team played awfully awfully well for maybe even the majority of the game and had good control of the game when -- I thought Xavier definitely ramped up its aggression somewhere there in the middle of the second half. No matter what we did -- obviously Sundiata is a tremendous, explosive, powerful driver -- we did everything we could to pound it in the paint and get to the free throw line but no matter what we did we couldn't get there. ... The difference in the game ended up being at the free-throw line.

Sundiata Gaines
I definitely felt the game was changing. they def picked up aggression on defense. i felt our offense got stagnant. we we're moving like we normally do. ... They found a way to get to the foul line and they hit some open shots. we just didn't find a way to stop their momentum. overall from a team standpoint we played a great game but we just lost our composure.