Making the first shot ... that would be a bit easier. But when you have 21 offensive rebounds, you can't really complain. |
My knee has been bothering me a little bit but not enough to affect me. It's just one of the many things that's not going well for me right now. |
No one was willing to accept the fact that we were going home. |
Nothing to lose. It makes you feel looser and play a little more freely. When you do that, you start to have a little more fun and things start to go your way more often than not. |
Once again, we've had another wake-up call and we know we can't sleep through a game. |
Over the last three years at Connecticut, I have played with, and against, the highest level of competition in college basketball. I feel now is the time for me to explore the option of testing my basketball skills against the best players in the world. |
Rashad gave us a spark in the beginning. We had a lot of people step up tonight. This was definitely the kind of game where we needed everyone. |
Since the Syracuse game, every practice we're talking about going hard for 40 minutes and the full 35 seconds on the shot clock. That's definitely been a point of emphasis. |
That's a big thing, to have a banner up there and to go into the tournament knowing that you won the regular season. |
That's definitely the strength of their team. They force you out of your offense, they bump you on all your cuts and front you in the post. They never give up. They fight you for everything. |
That's one of the best things we do. Everyone on our team can get to the offensive boards. When we do that, it just makes our jobs that much easier. |
That's really going to tell us how good we are. It will be a good gauge as to where exactly we're at right now. |
That's really going to tell us how good we are. We know right now that we're a very good team. ... All three of the teams we're playing have been playing really well recently. It will be a good test and a good gauge of where exactly we're at right now. |
That's when we all realized that we weren't going to take any pushing anymore. We were going to push back. |
The Villanova loss was tough but we showed a lot of grit and poise bouncing back from that game. |