Top UNC Quotes Heading into Selection Sunday

• "I think rebounding is going to be big for us," Derek Dixon said after the loss to Duke. "All of us have to pitch in, not just Henri [Veesaar], not just Zayden [High] or Jarin [Stevenson], [we can't just] rely on them."

• "All the guards pitching in. That's what killed us tonight (Saturday) - offensive rebounds. We just have to be better with that. Taking care of the ball - we're going to have to [clean] that up on the offensive end."

• "Yeah, just the inability to respond to physicality," Hubert Davis said when explaining what led to the team's struggles against the Tigers. "I felt like it was the same thing Saturday of last week, and for most of the game tonight."

• "Clemson has always been physical defensively, and one of the things I always say is you never let a defense dictate and decide how efficient you are on the offensive end. And I felt like their physicality took us out of our offense, took us off of our cuts, our screens, our moves, and didn't really respond to that until the latter part of the second half."

• "Then also, I've been straightforward about - for us to be a good team, we've just got to be good defensively," Davis continued. "I've said defense and rebounding and taking care of the basketball."

Buying In and Playing Aggressive

• “That we have a chance to do some big things in March and April, but it’s hard, you know," Seth Trimble explained. "We have to buy in. And we can't buy it for some parts of the game like we did today.”

• "We were just playing as a team, just trying to be aggressive," Henri Veesaar said. "I know they played long possessions, so we had to do quick offense because otherwise the clock was going to run out before we could get there."

• "Yeah, just really trying to be aggressive, trying to get the best shot, get an early shot and then fight as hard as we can for offensive rebounds, defensive rebounds, trying to just get us back into the game."