People will fall in love with Jeff Adrien. All he does is come to work, put the hard hat on, just keep getting balls off the glass. Hopefully, as we move up in caliber and size, he's still able to do that. |
Pittsburgh has turned into a rivalry game for us. They certainly have become a formidable opponent, an obstacle for us to get to a championship, or for seeding, or quite frankly just to get wins. |
Points for him are like oxygen for the rest of us. |
Providence has given us lots of problems and Timmy (Welsh) has prepared his team well. I think the only difference between Providence and maybe somebody a little bit higher in the (Big East) standings, quite frankly, is that these are young kids. |
Quite frankly, we've probably had five complete games all year. We've been a team of lapses. |
Quite frankly, you have to go to somebody. You have to have your inside game or your outside game. And, usually, somebody's got to make plays. |
Rankings and polls and seeds and all that stuff, in the midst of a game, they don't count. You have to make shots, you have to get rebounds, you have to play defense. |
Rashad doesn't mind who he takes a three on. We put him at point guard and every play worked its way to be for him. That's kind of unusual. He will be on track to be the greatest 3-point shooter we've ever had here, and we've had some pretty good ones. |
Rashad wanted to be so good tonight, and of all guys who I thought wanted the limelight at home, it's really unfortunate he didn't have the kind of game he's capable of having. He's a terrific basketball player ... the best sixth man in college basketball. |
Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems. |
Regardless of our success, failures or whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Last year's double-overtime game was a war down there. |
Regardless of our successes, failures, whatever it may be, it seems like Providence always plays us close. I think it's 3-3 over the last six games. Our national championship team (2004), they showed up at 12 o'clock at the (Hartford) Civic Center and beat us pretty good. |
Ricky wasn't as good a shooter — though he was a great defender — as Craig is. And Marcus is a good shooter but he's not the scorer that Khalid was. But it's still two guys that can both score, both pass. We know we're going to need that lineup at certain times. |
Right now, that guy would be Denham (Brown). In the last two games, it's been Denham against very good defense. |
Right now, we have to prepare ourselves for a team that feels very good about itself. We have to tighten our defense. |