It’s good to get them the minutes. It’s encouraging to me. I can sleep at night [thinking about] the future.

Allan has a serious injury and he’s doing OK . . . That’s all we can say at this point.

Obviously this was an incredible Big East battle. We just said to ourselves, this is BIG EAST game No. 1 – it tells you what this league will be like…Timely shots by Allan Ray, Jason...

We’re a defensive team. We take pride in that. And we just couldn’t stop them. …I’ve never had that feeling, where you just couldn’t stop somebody.

We struggled, and a lot of that credit goes to Marquette. But we finished it off, and that’s a sign of a really good team.

He’s still got time before he can even talk them into a decision. If they clear him, we’ll still have to sit down and make a decision. I’m hoping as we get closer he’ll realize...

We got beat today because they were more efficient in every phase of their game today than we were.

We really enjoy as a team the time that we spend together, just coaches, players hanging out. We always get that on the road. There is an enjoyment to being on the road for us...

I could see this playing out at the end (as a storybook McNamara ending) with the way he was hitting the threes but I didn’t want it to happen at our expense. I was pleased...

Anytime our guards got into their guards, there was always an outlet to one of their forwards. I was very impressed.

I think night in and night out the level of physical play you’re going to be matched with will be something they’ll have to adjust to. It doesn’t matter what a team’s record is in...

My guys showed me something tonight.

I know our guys believed we could beat them and even if we lost this game they would believe it. Everyone talks about our guards, but in our locker room we know what our forwards...

I was very pleased, very proud. We played every possession. We played at fever pitch and that’s what put the game away early.

This is obviously a devastating injury for Curtis and our program. Fortunately, Curtis is incredibly strong, physically and emotionally. I know he will bounce back stronger and better than ever.

He’s good. We actually recruited him. We really liked him. … You know what he’s going to do. He’s just going to pound you. He’s going to go to the glass every time. He’s going...

They take the coaching out of your hands. I never thought I would get another player like Speedy Claxton and I got two of them. I’m a lucky man.

I think we beat them on a good night. They’re great. They deserve to be No. 1. They answered everything we did, we answered what they did and that’s what made a great game between...

There’s nothing we can do about that, other than win every other game.

We really haven’t had a game like that this year where we just felt like we couldn’t get things going offensively. I thought that Pittsburgh, once they got a hold of the game, did a...

Pretty cool. I think that all of us are pretty familiar with each other.

When our press was effective at times, it kept them from getting into their (half-court) sets. When they got into their sets, he hurt us.

We take the responsibility of representing United States basketball very seriously. You realize the enormity of who you are representing — the best players in the world, the best coaches in the world — and...

I can’t tell them apart. They both do the same things every play and that’s where our leadership comes from.

That was a great college basketball game. We were very fortunate to get out of here with the win.

That was a great college basketball game. It’s difficult to take but we have to. It’s part of life and you move on. We have to win the next one that’s what’s on our minds...

In this conference, if you finish in a grinding, 16-game schedule at the top of the conference, you’re a hell of a program.

It is a challenge for us for sure. We don’t have a choice so we try to play the best we can with the four guards. As you can see, what hurt us [in the...

I still question it every day.

I think they were trying to take Randy and Allan away early. Then they made a great adjustment in the second half [getting a post man in the middle] and Kyle couldn’t get to the...

This is where I want to be.

He was exhausted. I said, ‘Do you have more?’ He said, ‘It’s my career. I have got it.’ He was the best.

My original plan was to allow Curtis to come back, practice, see how he feels and decide game by game what he wanted to do. But this has become such a distraction to our team....

There are some positives to this. It is creating problems for the other team, too. So we have hung with it. It gets us by. I am not making any videos on it, I will...

We can’t let that affect what we do on the court.

I’m very pleased with our team, we just didn’t execute. This was one of those games that could’ve gone either way. I thought we did a decent job, we just came up a little short.

They were playing great early. I think that our depth just kind of wore them down.

We just didn’t do a good enough job today covering the 3s. When they hit those 3s they are a very difficult team to beat.

That’s the guy the pros all wanted to talk about at the (World University) Games this summer. He’s just an amazing player.

One guy, Speedy Claxton. He reminds me a lot of him. You ask how does a guy 5-10 make it to the NBA? That’s the kind of things Speedy did. He’s the only other person...

It was crazy. We are a defensive team. We take pride in that. We just couldn’t stop them. I just never had the feeling that you can’t stop anybody.

It’s cool. That was an old school, split-the-house type of night. Thank God, (Lowry) plays for us. There have been a lot of great Philadelphia guards to play here. That’s just a great thing to...

But I don’t know when he’ll get cleared. The later it takes for him to get [medical] clearance … maybe that will make it easier for him to make a decision.

We’ll get him checked Monday and see.

His unselfishness is not an act. It’s almost like he cherishes it.

I’m real proud of our team. To win the conference over a 16-game schedule is a great accomplishment.

It was a great ride.

I thought we started the game really strong. But Australia made a great adjustment in the second half, credit to them.

I thought that might have been one our best defensive efforts of the season. They are a very tough, physical team and we always worry about being a small team because of our guards that...

[The Owls are] athletic and long, and that’s what Louisville is. We’ll be playing in a tough environment, so I feel good going into that game because of the way we played against Temple.