Whats still fresh and new and exciting about this process, about getting no sleep in March?
COACH IZZO: I think as I try to tell my team, you have a lot of years you dream about going to the tournament, dream about being a Final Four team, now that we’ve been to one before. I never dreamed about it as much before we went, but once you go and go a couple times, then it becomes a goal every year. And yet realistically I can think of three years where I thought we had a legitimate chance, and one of them was in 2000, not ’99, probably because I hadn’t been there, didn’t know. One was in 2001, and I thought this year we had a legitimate chance, which means one of 15, 16 teams. In 2005 at the beginning of the year, you know, I just didn’t know where this team was. We really didn’t have a point guard that year. I didn’t know where they were. I thought they could be a good team, but I didn’t know if they could be a Final Four team. Coaches have to be realistic with themselves, not to the teams always, not to the media ever — no, always, and not to the fans, but they do have to be r
