The schedule is a little bit different this year. Don't give us too much credit yet. |
The stats tell the story of the game. Pitt played a tremendous game. We'll learn a lot from this game. It was very hard to get open looks in this game. |
The unbalanced schedule, I think, may help some teams, believe it or not. |
Their quickness and offensive rebounding was the difference. |
Their top six guys are tremendous players who all hit good shots. |
There are eight of them, so 50 percent of them probably will have to contribute immediately. |
There is no difference between Notre Dame and the teams in the top of the league. |
There were some games when we were on the road and I didn't think we had the right attitude. Did we have the right energy? Was the season wearing us down? I don't know. It's sort of an intangible thing. |
There's no secret. There's nothing. I've been doing this 31 years and there's no real secret. |
They are a blend of Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and maybe a Georgetown with the way they guard. They are just a great defensive team. You hear a lot about it, but, watching it with my own eyes, you can see they have great quickness. |
They came after us and they were putting us on the foul line, so that was the way we were going to score points. |
They had an awful lot of turnovers against us the first time. I haven't seen them have those turnover numbers since then. |
They played tremendous defense on us. They frustrate you. They're very good defenders, and we as a team have to learn how to handle it when that happens. ... I don't like the way we handled a lot of things, but we are going to learn from this game. |
They showed me so much courage. |
They were going to put us on the line and make us score that way. |