Is he the best player in the league? No, he's not. But he's the most important player on any team in the league. When Allan Ray is hurt, Villanova wins. If one or two guys from Connecticut have bad games, they still win. If Gerry doesn't play for us, we can't be in the game. |
It had nothing to do with the law or breaking rules. He just had some personal issues he had to deal with. We've never talked about it, and we never will. I'm sure Billy never will either. The bottom line is, we think he's on the right track, and we're pretty confident he'll be available second semester. |
It seemed for a long time there that we made the finals every year and took it for granted. It has been a while. |
It was a great win. I'd say one of the best if not the best we ever had at Syracuse. But I've only been there 44 years. |
It was a great, great tournament. I'm really glad for Gerry. He started his career a little bit, probably a little bit too good, and where are you going to go after that? But he's come back and had four great years for us. He's got unbelievable heart; he really does. |
It will be a great tournament to watch. It's always been good, but never this good ... There will be some unbelievable games in the next few weeks. |
It's a great win. I'd say it's one of the best we've ever had at Syracuse and I've only been here about 44 years. |
It's a matter of accepting what he can do. He needed to be patient. That's a tough thing to do as a player, but this was a game that was made for him. |
It's a tremendous honor but it's like anything you get in life. It really doesn't change the future. You still have to go out and recruit and try to do the best coaching job you can. There is no better honor but it's not going to help us beat anybody. |
It's an overwhelming feeling to be here. It's a tremendous honor to be here and walk through this building. |
It's certainly a tremendous challenge. I don't know if it'll be any tougher than when we had three Final Four teams and two teams get to the Sweet Sixteen. It can't be much tougher than that, but it'll be difficult. |
It's happened before. He'll bounce back. |
It's nice to be back for such a good cause. There's no question it's nice to be back to work. |
It's our offense. We made too many turnovers and we missed too many lay-ups. I just told the players we're not going to win any games if we miss eight lay-ups and we turn it over that many times. |
Jim and I talked before the game (Monday) about this. It just doesn't make sense. Too many good teams. It's too difficult to stack the deck against people. |