When you play a seasoned team like that, and you get a lead, you just know they’re going to get a run.

It doesn’t surprise me with this group. Number one, because we shoot threes, and [number two], I’ve never seen them quit.

He’s done an incredible job. I think what he’s done a great job of doing is utilizing his personnel instead of worrying about what they don’t have, he’s doing a great job of taking advantage...

I think they know how hard it’s going to be to get any further than that.

I know that it didn’t look pretty to the fans, but it sure looked pretty to me.

It’s been something we’ve been asking him to do. He’s so unselfish.

Cincinnati plays as hard as any team in the Big East, and this environment is as difficult as any in the Big East. We’re going to see the same thing Sunday. It’s like we set...

This is the best scenario.

A lot of times bigger players have to bang inside, they have to do the dirty work, they have to screen, they have to defend in the post, they have to post up. If a...

My wife and I talk about it all the time. We have three kids, and we’re on them all the time, telling them what to do, who they should listen to.

That’s something our team can do because of our depth. I have confidence in our guys, one through twelve, and we have good team quickness. That helps us create turnovers.

Will Sheridan did a great job, he guarded him most of the time. Jason (Fraser) also guarded him, Dante Cunningham guarded him.

If we have seniors like this and I’m yelling and screaming at halftime, we’re in a lot of trouble. They’ve got to take responsibility and they did.

He hit some deep, deep shots and some tough shots. I think he was just incredible in the first half.

When both guys went with Al … Kyle Lowry actually did a great job of offing to Allan and got it to (Sheridan). It was a great play by all three.

Typical, tough conference road game. It didn’t take South Florida long to figure out how to play in the Big East.

If he and Mike came, we wouldn’t be able to get Kyle (Lowry). If we didn’t get Mike and got (Shakur), we probably could get Kyle. Players like playing with good players. One of the...

We don’t have one or two big guys that we count on to get rebounds and that we keep around the basket. All of our guys guard all over the floor defensively, so anybody could...

This is the best news we possibly could have gotten.

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players’ names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

You’re always concerned about how it’s going to affect these guys.

We had a couple of looks that went in and out. That was our chance. You only get so many opportunities and we didn’t take advantage and they closed us out.

They were so intense that we had to back off, but we accomplished what we needed. They had a very businesslike approach. They came to each workout with a purpose and that enabled us to...

It’s a great atmosphere, a great environment. Everybody says it’s the closest thing you get to a bowl game.

At this point last year, we were in catastrophe mode. We were actually putting in new stuff, playing guys at different positions. … I think we all were quietly apprehensive at this point last year,...

The kid’s the best. He’s a great leader … It’s scary.

We don’t have time to practice, and we needed to work on the things we’re going to need tomorrow.

He played like a veteran tonight. He’s the most consistent guy we have. That’s what we count on him for.

We’ve still got until the end of the month, beginning of March, until they let him make a decision. I think he’s getting more realistic about it. When I have to make a decision, I’m...

Most people are bigger than us, so they start that way and see how that goes. A lot of teams at some point have gone to their version of ‘small’ against us. We’ve seen both.

We hear it all the time, so you think about it because everybody talks about it around here. We spend all our time with each other talking about, ‘Forget about it.’ It’s such a mythical...

When I saw (athletic trainer) Jeff (Pierce) walk into the office with an x- ray, I was preparing myself for the worst. But this turned out to be great news.

Our lineup gets dictated by the circumstances of the game.

I got to see exactly what I wanted to see.

He couldn’t see when he was here. And being there, they did a great job there. Everybody did a great job. Our trainer got right to him. … An ophthalmologist rushed across town and examined...

We’re always prepared not to have him and it’s been that way for four years. We’re happy for him personally. He isn’t in pain and he played 26 minutes that way.

He hit some deep, deep shots. He was incredible in the first half. Some of those shots must’ve been 32 feet.

South Florida was well-prepared and did a good job. It wasn’t a case of us going out on the road and not being able to shoot well. Their defense had a lot to do with...

I don’t ever think I used the word grind about a season and I found myself using it at the end of this one. There was never a time to relax and that’s a positive...

This is as good a college basketball atmosphere as you are going to find in the country. It starts with the students and this is a very difficult place to play. Our guys love to...

In these Big 5 games, you come to expect the unexpected. But I never thought we would struggle the way we did offensively and give up that many easy baskets on the defensive end.

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We’ve moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

We were resilient. We never stopped.

They were on the top of every aspect of their game. We will learn from this. You’ve got to beat the best team in their own house.

He’s got a serious injury, but he’s doing OK. He’s being evaluated right now. That’s really all we can say.

I wanted him to understand we ran that play for him with the game on the line.

There is definitely something God-given in him that enabled him from a young age to pick the right people to listen to. It constantly amazes me. … Because of all those people, he’s got a...

We have seen (Russia), they are very talented and a very tough, disciplined team. It should be a great battle.

We’ve not been paying attention to the polls. We really want to be concerned with being the best team we can be at the end of the year.

We want to shoot 3s, … We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.