I felt a tremendous responsibility early on to get us into the new building, then to get the program going in the right direction. Now, I feel more like a proud papa. |
I think he gives their team confidence. I think the fact that he's out there and he can draw fouls and he can get to the paint and he can create, and I think it gives their team confidence that he makes plays. |
I think our conference is going to have a more difficult time scheduling. |
I thought that they attacked us where we were particularly weak tonight and did a good job of that. |
I thought we wore him down because he had to make so many plays for them. |
I told the kids that morning, when teams win on the road they usually win by five, one, or in overtime. I never thought we'd win by that kind of a margin. But the kids really had the killer's instinct. And our depth really helped - by the end, they were more tired than we were. |
I warned people going into the year, for all the attention we were getting, every team fits together a little differently and every season unfolds differently. A year ago, we enjoyed tremendous health and tremendous luck. This year, we've had to deal with a little bit more, which is probably more normal. |
Isaiah had a tough night. Their long bodies changed our shots. Then we went a little out of character with some quick shots. |
Isaiah Hunter had a tough night. We rode the horses that got us here, but some of them came up limping and lame. |
It's an achievement on our campus that's appreciated. We've been to the NIT nine times and had never made it to New York. |
It's ironic. What you're good at can sometimes come back at you the other way. |
It's not like I'm trying to be coy and he's out running wind sprints behind the building right now. We just don't know how the foot is going to feel from day to day. We're going to be conscious of how many weeks are left in the season and what lays out there for us as a possibility. |
Just because we don't have a football team doesn't mean we don't have a good basketball team. I don't think you measure basketball teams the way you measure programs that have football teams. We've been able to measure up. |
Knowing how Tech likes to finish with a flurry, getting up 10 or 11 is a pretty smart thing to do. |
Manhattan was a quick study in terms of personnel and style and strategy. But that's not going to be part of the process with Hofstra. We're not going to be watching film saying, 'Who's this guy? Who's that guy?' We're very familiar with this team. And I'm sure Hofstra feels pretty ready for us, also. |