This is the time of season when you really need to get your act straight for the crunch run. |
This is where our basketball culture stands. Whether I agree with kids leaving after two or three years really is of no consequence. |
This is where you want to be. You want to be playing from the top. |
This league is a bear. I have great respect for Pittsburgh. For us to go anyplace, we have to beat Pittsburgh. For Pittsburgh to go anyplace, they have to go by us. |
This league will not allow you to breathe. If you're not good every night, you're going to get beat. It's that difficult. In all my years in this league, I've never seen anything like it. |
This proves that you can't just show up in postseason play, because instead of going to practice and preparing for a game tomorrow, we have to wait a week. Next time we lose, we're going home. |
This team is to be reckoned with in the NCAA tournament. This team has a chance to get itself to Indianapolis (site of the Final Four) and, just like everybody else, has a chance to go home. |
This team, at times, can be overwhelming to handle for certain teams. It can dominate through size. It can mismatch you in so many different ways. As long as the guy who makes us go (Marcus Williams) has good games, they we can play with anybody. |
This was a year that if you relaxed, you were going to get beat. Here's Marquette picked 12th, and they have a bye. It gives you a sense of just how strong this league is. It's almost impossible to imagine that a couple of years ago. The diversity and depth of players make it almost impossible to predict. |
This was an advertisement for how hard the teams in this league play. |
This was an advertisement for how hard the teams in this league play. Increasing our toughness was one thing I thought we had to do. We knew we could score, but we had to show we could come up with that kind of game like we had other times this season. |
This was the first time Hilton's taken over a game in his entire career. He's had good starts to games before. Tonight was the first time he's been able to maintain it throughout. |
This weekend might be like a root canal. |
This weekend might be like root canal in the sense the way Seton Hall is playing right now. That's the first order of business. |
This whole idea of David and Goliath is a real natural thing to root for the underdog. The charm of this tournament is every single night, we're all surprised by the things that happen. |