We put ourselves in a position to win. But it just came down to free throws. There is such a fine line between a win and a loss. It would have been good if it would have went in, but we need to play better defense through the game instead of putting ourselves in that position. |
We stressed getting off to a good start and being ready to go, but my advice didn't go very far. |
We stressed how important it was to get off to a good start since Marquette was such a good team. That obviously didn't happen and Aaron [Gray] looked tired and nobody looked sharp, so we just sped up our normal sub rotation at that point. |
We think he's going to be on the flight (Thursday). |
We try to improve every game. We feel like we can get better and better. The battle on the boards (with Wisconsin) was tied, 32-32. That's an area we have to win, so we feel like there's always something we can do better. |
We turned him into a lottery pick. |
We want our people to improve. We want them to get better. This is the most important award for us. |
We want to help all our guys in any way we can, if they want to further their careers, but our focus is on our guys and getting ready for (first-round opponent) Louisville. People are smart enough to know when the right time is to talk about other schools. Every situation is different, so to give a blanket statement wouldn't be the right thing to do. |
We want to win every game. We're 21-4 and playing well right now. |
We were down 11 on the boards and were still in the game. It's the biggest emphasis for us. |
We were focused on trying to win the game and that was it. That's what you have to do and that's what we were focused on. |
We were impatient. Rushing things offensively and that hurt our defense. We had some foul problems early and that hurt us. We just didn't play well. Our offense has a lot to do with our defense. They go hand in hand. |
We were so impatient, rushing things offensively and that hurt our defense. We improved in the second half but again that early hole was huge. |
We were very efficient in the second half. We wanted to get it inside to Aaron from the start. We missed some easy ones early. Our patience was good in the second half. We used the clock and got shots at the end of the clock, which can wear down teams. We really had good clock management. |
We weren't playing well despite the fact that we stressed the last three days about getting off to a good start. |