Lebo speaks to the Media

Hey everyone. Sorry for the lateness. We're dealing with some financial hardship here at the Advertiser, a subsidary of Gannett, Inc., but this next furlough won't affect you as much.

I'll take it in May when almost nothing is happening.

A bit of housekeeping:

• Josh Moon will be covering the AU-Baylor NIT game tomorrow night. It begins at 6 p.m. I will not be live-blogging the game because I won't be there.
  
  
• I will be covering Auburn's first spring football practice, which begins at 7 p.m. You should be expecting a full report -- along with video -- later that night. If you can't stay up, you'll have a treat waiting for you in the morning.

JEFF LEBO SPEAKS
On Baylor's affinity for the zone defense: "That is not something we have seen a whole heck of a lot of. We shoot a lot of threes and that is why people don't play it a whole lot against us. We have to be good in transition attacking it because we are used to transitioning back to man-to-man, and now they are going to be transitioning back to zone."

On what making the NIT semifinals at Madison Square Garden would mean (get your slide rulers out for this one): "It would be awesome. It is a huge stage. People don't realize how hard it is to just get into postseason. In the NCAA, you have 34 at-large and that is kind of the same ratio that get into the BCS (bowls) in football. You have 32 in the NIT now which is harder because five are automatic bids. So, you have fewer chances to get into postseason. You have about a 28 percent chance in basketball to get to postseason. Football is like 53 percent."

FRANKIE SULLIVAN SPEAKS
On the significance of playing in New York if Auburn wins this game: ``It would be a big plus for us following into next year. Guys would really want to play here. We would get better players. Everybody loves a winner. They'll think they can come in here and contribute to the winners."