Chris Jans on Mississippi State basketball managing expectations

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00:00 Well, a lot of the talk came before the injuries.

00:04 You know, there was a lot of talk in all the two early polls

00:07 and this and that and the other.

00:09 And we had more people coming through the gym,

00:11 evaluating our team than we had the year before from, you know,

00:15 different analysts from different networks

00:17 and things that they do their homework on.

00:19 And then it kind of went away for a while, you know,

00:22 and we tried to use that to our advantage.

00:25 And we knew going into this game, you know, we had a lot of, you know,

00:29 ammunition, if you will, with last year's scare, right?

00:32 And then they beat LSU, and, you know,

00:35 so we had plenty to talk about to get our guys ready to go.

00:38 But in terms of, you know, the rankings and all that stuff,

00:41 we haven't talked about it one time.

00:43 At least I haven't talked about it with anyone in our team

00:45 or even our coaching staff, you know, since that came out.

00:49 And don't get me wrong, I'm glad that we're being acknowledged

00:52 and it's great for the program in a lot of different areas.

00:56 But at the end of the day, you know, we've got a lot of basketball yet to be played.

00:59 by yet to be played.

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