Little did he know what was going on behind the scenes. |
Losing makes you tight on your jump shots. |
Marquette ran their offense, did some good things. But it takes great execution and a big night from someone to make that happen. You never know what's going to happen. You can't give up, you've got to stay in there and fight. You never know, Saturday could be the upset that turns this around. |
Marquette-Louisville has always been that way. We have played each other tough and battled. We had to beat them twice. |
Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and probably Creighton and Missouri State should be in (the NCAA Tournament). |
Nobody we've played this season, ... has come with this much size, this much talent and this much experience. North Carolina and Georgia Tech probably have the most overall talent. Now that they're healthy, they're probably believing they can do it. |
Notre Dame should really have only one loss in the conference. What has happened to them is scary. We've both been very unlucky. They've been unlucky with last-second situations and we've been unlucky with injuries. So it's two teams that have not had a great deal of luck and good fortune go their way. |
Now we have to [play] at West Virginia, Villanova first and Syracuse. Pretty easy, huh. This league is so tough, we're going to have a lot of rivalries. |
Obviously, none of the officials saw it or they would have called it. But if we had made our free throws, it wouldn't have been a point. We could have iced it by making our free throws. |
Obviously, we'll look a lot better when Padgett and Palacios are in there. |
On every team, if you have a point guard who thinks pass before shot, you're in trouble. You need a point guard to think pass before shot, and that's what he does. |
Our effort was terrific; it's just that Villanova was better. Our guys hung in there. We'll get better and better, but it's going to be like this. |
Our goal is the same as it was when we left (for this road trip). We had six road games left. We want to win at least two of those and sweep our remaining four games at home. … We had a golden opportunity that we gave away (at Rutgers), which was one of our best opportunities on the road. |
Our guys are playing with great effort and great heart. They're just getting beat by better teams. ... But if we keep getting this type of effort, we'll get better and better. |
Our guys played with tremendous heart, and I'm really proud of them. |