QUOTE OF THE DAY

BARNES (Steeter Lecka/Getty Images)

“Coming into last year, there was a lot of expectations, but we didn’t know what to expect and we didn’t know how things went.  There wasn’t really anybody we could talk to on the team who had been through that…I think this year we kind of know what to expect. We’re not looking at it as championship or bust. We’re looking at it as go out and play the best basketball we can.”

-- Harrison Barnes after again being chosen for the AP Preseason All-America team.  Barnes received the second highest number of votes (63) from the 65-member national panel.  Jordan Taylor, a senior guard at Wisconsin, was a unanimous (65) pick.  The other first teamers are Jared Sullinger of Ohio State, Terrence Jones of Kentucky and Jeremy Lamb of UConn.