Highlights from the interview room on Friday at the Final Four in Dallas, where Connecticut and Florida meet, followed by Kentucky and Wisconsin, on Saturday.

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan, on coach Division I vs. Division III: "Well, let's see. The day before we played the National Championship game in the years that I was in Division‑III, I had a diet pop‑ I always say soda until I got to Wisconsin, now it's pop‑ and a cream doughnut at the Krispy Kreme place, and enjoyed that, read the paper, did some crossword puzzles, and went to the game the next day. The difference? I haven't had a cream‑filled donut today. I haven't had a diet pop. You get to answer a lot of questions that you don't get asked in Division‑III."

Ryan on his salary: "I just found out how much I make now a year, because as a state employee I guess it's published anyhow. I've never seen a check in 40 years.

"Every place, wherever I was an employee, it always went into the account. My wife gives me $150 a month as allowance, whether I need it or not. So I don't get caught up in all that other stuff."

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Wisconsin center Frank Kaminsky, on having a late growth spurt: "It was difficult growing so much so fast. My biggest battle was with doorways. I used to hit my head on everything. Learning to duck was my first big battle. But I knew once I conquered that, that I would be good going forward."

Connecticut coach Kevin Ollie, on following Jim Calhoun: "I don't look at it like a lot of people look at it, that I'm replacing Coach Calhoun. Coach Calhoun is still beside me. He's in front of me. He's behind me. I've locked arms with coach because what he's put inside of me and his belief system in me is something I'm going to always have great gratitude about."

Connecticut player Ryan Boatwright on transitioning from high school: "When you're in high school and you're scoring 50, 60 points, averaging 33, you think you know it all. When I got to this level I was coachable, but I always had something to say back. So I learned right away playing for Coach (Jim) Calhoun that that ain't a good thing to do. I just started listening more and knowing that I didn't know it all. I wasn't as good as I though I was.

Florida coach Billy Donovan on players transitioning to the NBA: "It's interesting in the preseason how everyone is going to talk about who is going to dump games in the NBA to get Andrew Wiggins. He's a terrific player, but he's just not changing a franchise once he gets there. I think what happens sometimes young players coming in, people fail to realize that there's a growth period that they have to go through and there are some learning curves and there's some up‑and‑downs that they all have to go through."

Donovan on freshmen playing: "I tell our guys this all the time. There's three things that don't get freshmen on the floor: One, they don't compete hard enough, they don't understand how hard they have to play. Two, they're not physically competitive enough to put their bodies in place. Three is they have no idea what we're doing. They're just lost. It's happening too fast. If you're missing any one of those three things for us, it's really hard to get on the floor and play a lot of minutes."

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Kentucky coach John Calipari on one-and-done players: "Every player that I've recruited, and they will tell you, I say the same thing: 'Don't plan on coming to school for one year. You make a huge mistake. But if after one year you have options, that will be up to you and your family.' "

Calipari on having his hip replaced: "You don't sleep as good, you don't get the eight hours. You're waking up. But I'm fine. The job at Kentucky ages you. It's not my hip. I look at the press conference I had five years ago, I didn't look like this. It's not my hip."

Calipari on his twin players Aaron and Andrew Harrison and how they are similar: "They really look the same (laughter). I made them have different haircuts early so I could figure out who was who. But they're so different. People would say, first of all, they said, 'Well, they only played together with each other.' I'm telling you, they are harder on each other. I got to get them to stop, 'Would you stop yelling at your brother?' "

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