As long as we play good defense, we have a chance to win the game. We're starting to believe in each other a little bit. |
At this time of year, everything is about confidence. About your ability to make the play that needs to be made at the time it needs to be made. That's everything at this time of year. And the bottom line is, if you have those guys that make those plays, you win. |
Barbara said she knew it was in as soon as she shot it. She's told me a lot of lies over the last four years, but that was the biggest one I've ever heard. |
Barbara said she knew the shot was in when it left her hand. She's [fibbed] to me many times the last four years. But that's the biggest one I've heard. |
Based on what I thought Wednesday night, when I saw what she looked like in the locker room after the game, to when I saw her [Friday], I'm 100 percent more optimistic. You go from, 'it could be cracked and she's out for the rest of the season,' to 'it's a really bad sprain, but nothing that can't be taken care of.' That's a pretty big difference. |
Because of some of the things that we did, the way my players did it, an awful lot of basketball programs decided they wanted to try to be like that. That's probably the thing that I'm most happy about ? the impact that the players at Connecticut had on a lot of players that are playing today. |
Brittany did a lot of good things tonight. If we know we can get 10-15 minutes from her every night like that, that changes things. |
Certainly it has become the game that everybody in the Big East points to. |
Chalk it up to lousy preparation. We can't run a play. |
Diana said afterwards there's pretty good vibes. There's a good feel to the group out there and the way they're approaching things right now. All I can tell from looking at them is they really think that this can be something pretty special for them. And as long as they think that, there's a chance it will happen. |
Duke has more good players than any other team in the country right now. You can say (North) Carolina is talented, Tennessee is talented and Maryland is talented. But look at Duke's roster, the size and speed and quickness and shooting and experience and depth. You name it, they've got it all covered. |
Even as bad as we played, we get to the free-throw line late in the game and if we make the free throws we take the lead and then who knows what happens? Our guys missed the free throws, they make them, they deserved to win. |
Every day that you see somebody that you think is really, really good and can't seem to get it going, you're always concerned about that because after a while, it's not physical anymore. It's mental. And that's the hardest thing to overcome. Every day that it goes on, you worry like they might never come out of this. |
Everybody can say all they want about who's in a tough bracket and who's not, but starting this weekend, everybody gets a chance to prove whether they belong there or not. |
Everybody leaves at some point, ... You can't stay forever. There's going to come a day when I'm not coaching at Connecticut anymore. I would think everybody understands that. Tomorrow? Next month? No. Next year? Probably not. But anybody who says never is lying. |