A day hasn't gone by where I don't think about it. There's never a day I don't think about cutting down those nets again, the feeling we had in '04. We had a taste of it two years ago and we want it again. |
A lot of people built their expectations on him, but his are just for us to win. He's definitely put in the category of having a lot of potential, but he's on a team with a lot of guys who can score. |
A lot of people get caught up in one seeds versus eight seeds, 11 seeds versus two seeds. Nobody cares about all that stuff. Rankings, all that stuff goes away. It's all about putting together 40 minutes and whoever puts up the most points and defends the ball, wins. |
Any time you play in the Big East, you don't want to give anybody a chance to come back. We wanted to put it to them. |
Anytime you're going into enemy territory against a team like Villanova, who's a great team, you have to be ready to play. You have to get some momentum. |
As soon as I checked in. I feel like that every game. It's a matter of me getting open looks and coming off screens and knocking down the shots. |
Everybody's getting better, no matter what school you go to. People want to be good. People who probably got overlooked by other schools, you know, they take it as a challenge and they work their butt off. |
Guys got to understand that you have to come out with intensity from the opening tip, that's basically what it was. |
He pretty much knew it was going to get broken. |
He's just believing in himself again. |
I almost got a technical foul. |
I couldn't ask for anything better for coach. It's an honor to be playing for him. Why wouldn't you want to play for a Hall of Fame coach who's got numerous guys in the NBA? |
I just decided not to let him get the ball anymore. |
I just felt good. The last couple of weeks I've been in the gym a lot, before practice, after practice. It's been paying off. |
I just knew that if the ball got to me, I was going to knock it down and we wasn't going to lose this game, no matter what. I knew it was down. |