University of North Carolina Athletics
Terrence Brown
Photo by: AINSLEY E. FAUTH
November 10, 2026 | Men's Basketball
POSTGAME QUOTES
UNC 76, WYOMING 63
NOVEMBER 10, 2026
DEAN E. SMITH CENTER, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.
UNC 76, WYOMING 63
NOVEMBER 10, 2026
DEAN E. SMITH CENTER, CHAPEL HILL, N.C.
UNC Head Coach Michael Malone
On Sayon Keita's game…
"I thought in the Indiana game he was outstanding. You know, very similar type game where he impacted the game with his blocked shots, his rebounding, his ability to be a dynamic roller in pick-and-rolls. But this is the first regular season game where he kind of has the numbers. And obviously, when you couple the six blocks, three steals, six deflections, his defense was felt throughout. And I thought he had some great possessions. Got him out late when they went really small, just to try to eliminate the three-point line, but hopefully Sayon can build on this."
On Isaiah Denis and Maximo Adams growing into their roles…
"When I met with all the players when I got the job, some decided to stay, some decided to leave. I didn't promise any of them anything. I don't promise players anything. The only thing I'll promise you was a chance to come in here and earn. And Isaiah Denis has earned this opportunity, and he's been injured. Didn't get a chance to play a lot because of that last season. And off the bench tonight, obviously, he and Maxi, 27 of our 30 bench points. Maxi's been outstanding as a young player for us off the bench. And Isaiah really is a freshman in terms of playing experience and his burst, his confidence, the work that he puts in, the film work. You know, you like to see young kids like Isaiah Denis have success because he is deserving of the opportunity."
On Maximo Adams coming off the bench…
"We won by 40 [against Wofford], so I don't know how many coaches would change a lineup after winning by 40. Even though Maxi was terrific with his first career college double-double, but Maxi right now off the bench is perfect for us. He gives us a scoring punch. He knocked down a couple of threes right when he got into the game in the first half, and he's relentless on the glass. He's the one guy that goes every time, and he gets you extra possessions. So I love where he's at right now, and he's a great kid."
On Terrence Brown's performance…
"One thing I never worry about with Terrence Brown, that kid plays hard. He is a competitor. I mean, that's what I love about the way he's wired, his DNA. And so he might not have a great scoring night, a great shooting night. He's going to find a way to impact the game. This means too much to him, you know. I thought Terrence, his spirit, his voice in the huddles – I told the guys at halftime when I called out everybody on the roster, I didn't call out one player. The one guy who rebounded in the first half was who? Terrence Brown. He had three defensive boards. The smallest guy on the court, and he has that kind of chip on his shoulder, that kind of toughness, which I think is contagious, and I love that about TB."
Maximo Adams
On Coach Malone challenging the players at halftime…
"He's keeping us accountable, and that's a great thing. In order to win, you got to keep everyone accountable ... I mean, he gets amped up, he tells us the truth. That's what it really is…Coach has a lot of confidence and trust in us, and we are the same."
On Coach Malone's rebounding drills…
"I mean, it just shows how important getting a rebound is. If you don't get a rebound, it's minus two points, and you don't want to lose in the drill. So that's one of the important things. He's making it a focal point that we have to rebound the ball."
On Sayon's performance….
"Six blocks, three steals, six deflections, and he won defensive player games, so he helped us a bunch."
On his role on the team…
"It comes with how I play in the game. Just leading my team with energy and hard work, and leading by example."
Matt Able
On Carolina's reaction to Wyoming's first-half offense…
"They just sent all five guys every possession… We kind of weren't ready for it, and we were back on our heels. And I think Coach came in the locker room and was like, 'Being soft right now, like you're being soft. We got to pick it up.' It's a pride thing at that point because they're not doing anything crazy. They're not hitting crazy shots, but they had like 15 more shots than us in the first half, so it was just a matter of wanting it more and locking in, and I think we did that."
On the defensive rebound struggles…
"Yeah, I mean, I think obviously it is a work in progress. I think that it is something that we are showing strides in. Obviously, the first half was very bad, but I think the second half kind of showed the type of team that we can be. And I think once we cleaned up their offensive rebounds, it kind of blew the game open."
On season outlook…
"I feel confident in how we're playing, but also more importantly, what we can be and what we can do. We have a brand new roster, [a] brand new coach. So I think it really comes down to just building that trust with each other. So I think the sky's the limit for us."
Isaiah Denis
On the locker room halftime message…
"We're doing a great job on defense, holding them to 30% defensively, but we got outrebounded. They were out tough on us in the first half, and if we continued to let them out-tough us, it was going to be a game down the wire, so we knew too, if we wanted to win, that we had to go out there and execute the game plan."
On the second half mentality…
"Reading the defense. The defense was giving me the layup, going for the layup. I know I hit three threes in the first half, so just staying aggressive, being who I am, and just being confident in my shots."
On the mentality coming off the bench…
"It's not all mentality. It's more like preparation for me. I just think about my preparation and how hard I've worked over the summer, over the last years, over my whole life, just waiting for this type of moment to just come to a school like this and be able to come off the bench, start, whatever it is, and just be electric for our team and show people what I can do as a player, and then just mindset-wise, just having confidence, man. My aunt told me before the game, stay bold, stay confident, and stay focused. So I think those three things right there just did it for me. Just staying confident, staying bold, staying focused."
Terrence Brown
On Coach Malone challenging the guys to make plays…
"Yeah, just like Coach was saying, it's an effort thing. It's basically like a want-to thing. Either you can choose to go out there and do it, or you don't. And that's what I feel like the whole team did, and that's why I was proud of the whole team for stepping up and the way that they did because Coach challenged us at halftime, and we came out there and we showed them."
On how Brown felt about being called soft…
"I feel like constructive criticism is good. When someone calls you out, it should be on your mind to want to prove them wrong and want to show them that you're different. So I think it's a good thing that coach did that to all of us in the locker room because it showed a lot of people's character of how they came out in the second half and they played way, way harder, got way more rebounds. You know, Keita played way harder in the second half. Jarin stepped up. Everybody stepped up in a good way for us to go out there and get the win."
On if "he's a guy who scores"...
"...I feel like if I get a few open looks, I'm just gonna keep taking them. Coach instills the confidence in me to shoot them. So if I have an open look, I'm not gonna turn it down. Just like I feel like anybody else on the team wouldn't turn the open look."
On "not looking smooth"...
"Yeah, that's the challenge to just put a full 40-minute game together. You know, but that's what comes with it. This is the third official game together. Six games playing under Malone. So you know, it'll all come together at the right time…As much as I say that, it's just, we got so many people from everywhere…Everybody's from different places. We're just trying to all understand each other in the right aspects."
What makes him an effective rebounder…
"Just my athleticism, being able to go up there and jump with anybody, try to alter a rebound."
How he "wakes the team up"
"[I'm] just trying to be as much of a leader as possible. You know, I'm trying to. We got a lot of young guys on the team that haven't really been in this position in college yet…So just trying to boost their confidence as much as possible. If someone's hitting shots, just trying to boost their confidence, uplift them to hit more shots. Because I know that when we're all at our peak or at our full potential, we'll be a great basketball team. And that's just that's all I want to see. I just want to see everybody strive and get to where they want to go."
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