"This is going to be a tough loss, but we showed that we are able to come back after the Uconn loss, so we are going to do the same thing here. This is still the same team, so we are going to have to fix what we did wrong.

"We got a lot of shots off, but we did not take our time with them. We rushed a lot of shots, especially at the end of the game. They let us get a lot of good looks, but we did not make them.

"New Mexico played a great game, but we did way too many things wrong. We can only learn from this tonight. We have two games left before the Pac-10, so we are going to have a lot to work on."

Richard Jefferson -
"This is a very difficult loss to take. This is the first time that I have ever lost at home. I never lost in high school, junior high or last year, so this is a little different for me.

"They did what they had to do to win. We did not. We did not convert our shots and we made a lot of turnovers. I think they probably out-rebounded us, and we gave up way too many turnovers.

"They are a very talented team, but they are the same team as last year except they don't have Kenny Thomas. They are basically the same team that beat us last year... things did not change that much.

"I missed a lot of shots tonight. They played good defense, but it was not like they were blocking our shots. We had a lot of open shots, just we did not convert them.

"We are hard enough on ourselves. We know that we did not play well tonight, so we are going to have to come back and change what we did. All of us are young, but we all have a great desire to win. We are going to come back strong."