On the conversation of if college basketball will go into a “bubble”:
“There’s been all kinds of thoughts because there’s some coaches out there that are talking about it. I’m one of those guys that thinks we need to pump the brakes a little bit on a lot of things. Let’s see what happens with football and how that goes. I think what people talk about with the bubble would be this: most universities have gone to where they’re going to finish up school by Thanksgiving. If you take ESPN, they could take the Maui Classic. They could take the Jimmy V. They could bring them all down there to a bubble, and for teams that are going to lose opponents because they’re not playing until January, those tournaments are over. They could put teams that want more games together at a sight like that. Again, all those ideas are going to be tossed about and will be tossed about. I personally still think that we’ve just got to slow down a little bit and see what happens and how things go, especially these next couple of weeks before we get to kick it off.”
On Pons and his decision return this season:
“We always want guys to get all of the information they can, and there’s so much unknown this year. There’s so much uncertainty. When you think about it, when players were allowed to have agents the past couple of years, the agents are going to do everything they can, I think, to get them to go into the Draft. With that said, there were some people at that point in time talking about how there’s not going to be college basketball or college football season. The NBA backed everything up. It’s not a typical year. The one thing we knew with Yves is that he’s a very well thought out person. I do think that every NBA team that interviewed him was more impressed after talking with him because they understood what we know, with how hard he works, his commitment (and) how much better he wants to get every day. He’s hearing it from a lot of different people, but Yves thought it out with his circle of trust and his people back home, and in the end, he’s coming back. Is he a difference maker? Absolutely. He’s improved. He has. I think this year is going to give him a chance to walk into the NBA from the front door. I believe it. The growth he’s made and will continue to make because he works. He’s got a chance to really be in that league for a long time.”