Question: Talk about your team as you head into postseason play. Calipari: “You play that Sunday championship game and travel back and find out you’re playing Thursday. I’ve got to give them off today just to get their legs and mind back. We’re having breakfast at my house right now. We’ve got a tough road ahead. The one thing I’ll tell you is nothing will be easy in the tournament. We are the youngest team in the tournament. I’m not just saying that. We are the youngest team in the tournament. I would imagine it may be the first time a team that’s not been in the tournament before. I don’t know. I haven’t looked at it that closely, but we may be the most inexperienced team. Guys have never been in this tournament before. That’s why the SEC Tournament was good for us. It gave us the environment that we are going to have to face.”Question: It was mostly freshmen who came through at the end of regulation and overtime yesterday. What does that say about their readiness to handle the pressure?Calipari: “Patrick (Patterson) played better when I watched the tape. I want him to be perfect which is probably not fair, but he played better than I thought. Daniel Orton played really well in this game. I thought Ramon (Harris) and Perry Stevenson gave us some good stuff. That’s important to us, but we are the youngest team in the tournament. You don’t know what’s going to happen when you get in there. The experience that we got in the SEC (Tournament) was very good for us. It builds confidence. It did some good stuff for us. But, again, this is going to be a hard road for a young team like this.”

Question: What’s your major concern going into the tournament?Calipari: “There’s an anxiety the first time you do this. I’m trying to make it like we’re playing this like we do every other game. For our first game, we’re off today, we’ll practice tomorrow and Wednesday, and we’ll play the game Thursday, which is about what we’ve done all year. We’re just trying to make it a normal game and that’s how we’re trying to play it. I’m trying to keep their focus on where we are – our little bracket our little world – and don’t focus about anything else.”

Question: DeMarcus Cousins has even commented this season that he’s really matured off the court the season as much as he has on the court. Have you seen that with him and where do you think it comes from?Calipari: “The bar has been really raised on him in what’s acceptable and what’s not acceptable. I think the other thing is as the accolades started coming his way and when he’s being viewed as this player and this type of person in a good way, I think he kind of liked it. So now he’s striving towards that. But he still gets frustrated when they double team him and he’s not getting baskets, or they’re double teaming him on rebounds. He’s trying to learn to deal with it. The reality of it is he’s come so far. Now, he’s got a long way to go, but he’s come so far it’s good.”

Question: What do you think about the SEC getting four teams in?Calipari: “Mississippi State and Mississippi were the other two teams (that could have got in). Both of them went on a run of losing games within the league where it was like, ‘Man, how did they lose that?’ You said it, I said it, we all said it. It put them in a bad position. If Mississippi would have beaten Tennessee, obviously they would have gotten in. Mississippi State, they’re saying now they had to beat us, which is crazy because they took us to overtime in two games. If we’re the No. 2 seed in the whole tournament, I don’t know what that means. ‘Well, they could have done more out of the league.’ But they won the division. I don’t know. I don’t have the answers to all that. All I can tell you is we were in a position to get six teams in. That’s where we wanted to be.”

Question: You told Dan Patrick that John Wall wants to stay, that you’re going to have to talk to him about it. Is that a legitimate thing he talked to you about?Calipari: “That’s me teasing Dan Patrick because I knew he was going to bring it up. We haven’t talked about it. What I’ve told all these guys is focus on being great college players. Focus on what you can do to help our team win. Focus on how you have to work or what you have to do to be your best right now. That’s all we’re talking about. That’s all were focused on. We’re not talking about anything next year. We’ve got three weeks to this season left and that’s all we’re focused on.”