I've never wanted that to be an excuse. I will say this: People have hit some big shots on us and tough shots. |
I've talked about our guards pretty confidently, but after that, who knows? |
If he doesn't make big plays, this thing would have ended in regulation. It's very fitting -- we rode him hard all year and man, did we ride him hard (Monday). |
If you would have told me that afternoon that we'd be playing on Senior Day to get to New York, I would have thrown a parade. Are you kidding me? |
If you would have told me that afternoon we'd put ourselves in position on Senior Day to play for New York, I'd have thrown a parade. Now, we can play for an NCAA Tournament berth. I don't know what we have to do, but you want the guys to start dreaming big. |
In college basketball, it's never too late to get going and it's always too early to say you're a lock. |
It all gets confusing after a while. All our kids need to know now is that they need to win. You do that, and you don't have to go looking at scenarios. |
It feels like we played seven league games. It was a great college basketball game. We gave ourselves a chance to win, but Pitt made plays when they had to. |
It probably helps us to shift some gears for a little bit. Slow it down, and then speed it up maybe Sunday. We need to use [the break] as an advantage, and I think it will be. |
It was important for them to be able to smile in the locker room. Hopefully that's good therapy. |
It was important for them to smile a little bit in the locker room. We haven't been able to do that in awhile. Hopefully that's good therapy for us as we get back to work. |
It was nice to get all the guys in the game. You don't expect that ever in a league game, and the way our thing has been going, we definitely didn't expect that. You're thinking you are going to have to defend something in the end. |
It's going to be crazy; it's going to be wild. I don't want our guys too distracted by that. |
It's good we won. It's the Urban Irish, the Urban Irish, all right? Even in South Bend. |
It's great drama, isn't it? We're like entertainment. We're a little bit of a miniseries right now that people can relate to, where everyone's a heartbreaker. The ratings people have got to love us because every one of them comes down to the wire. |