Now the game has taken me back to Springfield and I am so deeply honored and humbled to be in such a sacred place. |
Obviously they're a tournament team. I thought they were a tournament team yesterday. |
Obviously, the team was in very good spirits. |
Obviously, they're a Tournament team. |
Obviously, we are disappointed that Jeff will miss the game at Providence, but the rule as stated in the rule book is very clear. Other players will have to step up and make up for his absence and I have complete confidence that will happen. |
Of 1,100 basketball games I've been fortunate to be involved with, I've never been involved in anything like that. |
On paper, we seem to be a deep, big and experienced basketball team that should be ranked in the top 10 teams in America. |
On the Storrs campus, trust me, this is a big, big game against Villanova. Right now, [Villanova is] the best team in our league. |
On the way down here, it was just a really happy team. They really felt they played well. ... It's going to be a different kind of game (tonight). Over the next 24 hours, at the team meeting (Sunday) and at the shoot-around (today), we'll get an opportunity to really tell them. With only six games to go, there is significance to the game. |
One loss. Nothing more, nothing less. It's not going to stop us from getting ready for West Virginia. We'll talk about that. [We'll] look at what we should have done to get ready, and then we'll get ready for another complex team. |
Only two of the six kids have college degrees - my brother, who is a cardiologist, and me, ... We were a large Irish family, and in those days, the boys went to college. My sisters gave me $50 here and there and came to my games. They all gave me something. When people love you and believe in you, it instills confidence. Confidence comes from the people around you. |
Our 3-0 record and their 3-0 record is going to clash. Whichever team is able to impose its will and style on the other team is going to win. |
Our best big guy, certainly, was Jeff Adrien. |
Our defense got us going. |
Our defense was inconsistent. The defense got us going but that wasn't the key because we let up so many times. I think it was a good win but we didn't play as well as we're capable of. |