This could have been a very serious, almost catastrophic injury. They expect a full recovery.

At the end, he was just exhausted. I turned to him and asked: Have you got one more in you?

I wouldn’t wish what happened to them on any other class. I wouldn’t want to go through it again.

When we had some tough times a couple of years ago, we were all concerned about the program. I never, ever worried about my job. We all worried about the program.

His leg strength is at about 90 percent of where it was before. He’s doing resistance work and is shooting every day.

I’d much rather go into this tournament after winning the Big East, but now that we haven’t, I think what we will take from that is gaining a little bit of hunger and the understanding...

(Smith and Dudley) are the kind of guys that when you play against them, it’s tough to like them. But when you get to know them, they’re great kids. You hate to play against them,...

We had no choice. We had a lead. We are in the NCAA tournament. We said, ‘Let’s get through this second half and let’s see if these guys can hold onto the ball, and we...

I thought it was a terrorist attack, … I had no idea what was going on.

He was great. There were a lot of times where we got to the rim and he made us change our shots.

What happened? I thought this was a home game for us and all of a sudden when they cut it to seven, that shocked me. Where did all those people come from?

I fully support Kyle’s decision. He is working hard to prove himself as an NBA player and he also has the option to return for his junior year. This experience will benefit him no matter...

It kind of feels like a conference game. This just seems like a Big East game to me. I feel we’re in the middle of January and we’ve got BC next.

That was a lot of heart.

He was really getting into Kyle. I haven’t seen anybody get into Kyle where he couldn’t get where he wanted to go.

We need to get him on his feet and just get calories in him, because he’s lost so much weight. I think this week will be really good for him. … He has a chance...

They’ve been through so much, they just don’t fear failure.

They were shooting over us. And you could really see them hitting the offensive boards as part of their game plan.

Obviously Allan is very fortunate to have come through a potentially dangerous injury with these positive results.

We were having a tough time speeding them up.

In the 45 minutes he was at practice, he was the best player on the floor.

We have a chance to be pretty good.

I think they are probably the best defensive team in the tournament, … They are very well-coached, especially on the defensive end.

He?s good, but we knew that already because we recruited him. He?s a four or five for a Connecticut team, so he?s going to be a guy who pounds you, who?s very physical. He?s not...

You’re hit with that, and you say to yourself, ‘Wow. This is going to be something to deal with at the end of the year’.

This feels like a conference game. It feels like it’s the middle of January and we’ve got BC next. I don’t know if that’s going to be positive or negative for us.

This is a new experience for us, being No. 1. For us, there is pressure. You don’t want to be the first No. 1 seed to lose.

He’s so good at rebounding. Normally, we always have him going for the offensive glass. He loves it, and so much of rebounding is passion.

It did take longer, but, given the circumstances, I understand why it took longer. I don’t think given all of our circumstances, it could have happened any quicker.

It’s not really a problem right now. In June it could be, but right now, it’s not.

It kind of feels like a conference game to me. You know each other. You know what each of you is going to do. You just have to play the game.

They know so much about the other teams. They don’t know anything about themselves, about where they fit in. I talked to them about it a little bit yesterday. I said the freshmen were going...

It’s a calculated risk. We are confident we’ll be able to do that, but it’s still a risk. Until you get it back, it’s never in the bag.

I’d rather just give Penn credit.

That was a big play.

We had about nine days to really get fresh. We had some great practices and it turned into good playing.

I don’t think I’ve ever used the word grind, but I’ve found myself using that word a lot to describe this season. There was just never a time to relax this season. There was not...

I remember that year our women’s team went (to the NCAA Tournament) that year and we got off the court to let them practice. It wasn’t any punishment. I wanted our guys to understand that...

That is definitely the impression. I’m not surprised, because I always thought that should be the perception all year.

I think we are going to find out [today] if that would be good for us, or would they be able to match us real well. Like in the Big East, we are so unorthodox...

They came at us in the second half like they were going to show us that they’re the No. 1 team in the nation, and we weren’t ready for that. But then we responded.

He’s shooting the hell out of it, too.

What we’ll take from that is to regain a little bit of hunger and an understanding that we can get beat anytime by anybody.

I’m happy that Curtis is making an intelligent long-term decision. He has been focusing on helping his classmates. I feel he is confident in them and can now concentrate on what is best for his...

I think we are a little bit more experienced, probably a little bit. We are very similar, but they are a lot different.

That was a little scary,

I hope we’re that good. I’d love to be that good. That team had toughness and had great guards. But they were undefeated until the [conference] tournament.

He’s a unique player. I don’t remember anybody like him that good defensively and offensively on the perimeter and in the post.

I know that wasn’t a pretty game, but it was a great basketball game. That was two teams playing with a lot of heart.

I thought it would be a good challenge for us at this point. Obviously, I wouldn’t choose to do that, but it gave us a chance to play big a little bit. … That was...