It's a very important (cause). Having two sisters who had bypass surgery and a mother who died after bypass surgery, I'm very aware of it. |
It's always good to be No. 1 in anything but it's not great at this time of year. I want it at the beginning of April, but I'll take it now. Being No. 1 isn't a goal of ours like the Big East championship or the national championship, but we feel we're one of the better programs in the country for the last 15 years and being No. 1 is another notch for us as a total program. |
It's amazing that we were playing Kentucky for the first time. But we're trying to earn (recognition) as a lead program in America, and hopefully we continue to do that. It was obviously a tremendous, tremendous basketball game. |
It's an important game for them and for us it's an important game, too. You've got to make sure you take care of the home court and stay aggressive. |
It's an important time because no one wants anyone else to get off to a 7-0 start. The league is off to a good start. |
It's back to the Big East of old, to some degree. There are no easy games. This is a Georgetown-Syracuse weekend, which we've faced on a number of occasions. It's an important time for us. |
It's been a great season for us, it came up short. I truly believe we could have gotten the NCAA Tournament [title] and unfortunately we lost today to a really gutsy, gutsy, and by the way, real good George Mason team who truly took advantage of what they have better than what we took advantage of what we have. |
It's been mentioned that maybe Marcus should stay another year because he owes me for being in his corner. He never asked me to be in his corner. He doesn't owe me anything. |
It's both being fortunate and having the basketball gods smiling on you a little bit because quite frankly they had every right to win that game as much as we did. We took our foot off the pedal and we can't do that. |
It's considered serious by me. I don't think it's punishable by expulsion. I believe Marcus will be back some time this year. I don't know about A.J. The only reason I don't know now is medically. And I don't know the ramifications of everything else. |
It's contagious. Once a team starts missing, everybody misses. And we're not making foul shots right now. |
It's fine when we're running. It's not quite as fine in the half-court set. Yet I've seen us in the half-court set be brilliant. |
It's funny, New England is the birthplace of basketball, but we are somewhat underrepresented in the Hall of Fame, ... I would like to see Jimmy Walker in there. Holy Cross. They were the epitome. Later on, with Dave Gavitt and the Providence teams. |
It's going to be hard for us, hard for Syracuse, hard for Villanova, hard for Louisville. Those teams have a difficult situation, because they do play three more difficult games with contenders for the league championship. With that said, that's the schedule. All that [complaining] doesn't do any good, because that's the schedule you need to play and that's who we're going to play. |
It's going to be nice playing an away game, too. I'm looking forward to that. |