When you live with it, sometimes you have to die with it. It was fruitless for us to try to get to the basket, because we were not going to be rewarded for that, that was apparent to everyone. |
When you look at where he came from and you look at what he was when he got here, and now you see what he leaves as, I think it speaks to all of the good things that this program can do for kids. |
Whether you're in the four-letter or three-letter tournament, it's all about survival. Were still getting over what happened to us (the NCAA snub). Tonight's win makes it easier to swallow. |
Whether you're in the four-letter tournament or the three-letter tournament, it's all about survival. Survive and advance. Obviously we're still getting over what happened to us last Sunday, but tonight makes it a little easier to swallow. |
Who says you can't go home? This is like a homecoming for me. |
Who says you can't go home? This is like a homecoming for me. ... There's been a lot of great players, a lot of great moments here and it is my charge, it is my duty, to bring that back. |
With the quality of this league from top to bottom, you are never going to back your way into success. I felt as if we were just trying to hold on, thinking that that we were going to back our way into a road win in the Big East Conference. It's not going to happen. |
Without Hicks it would have been even uglier, although I don't know if that's possible. |
Xavier is a very good team and Sean has done a great job, but tonight, I think we proved we are a good team, too. Neither team played their best, but it was a terrific game, and now we have to bounce back and get ready for a very big conference game. |
You can 'X' and 'O' until you're blue in the face, but at the end of the day somebody's got to make a shot. |
You can never have enough size on the front line. ... But we're pleased that of the six guys that were in his predicament, five of the six are coming. |
You cannot be tentative against pressure. They sensed that fear and they jumped on it like great teams do and took us right out of the action. |
You don't guard a guy getting 23 a game with one guy. |
You don't see this style night in and night out, it's a different style of play you have to prepare for. |
You have to be careful in basketball to depend on emotion too long or too frequently. Obviously there's going to be emotion in the building for us with the magnitude of the game, I'm hopeful it will give us the energy we need. |