Scheduling is too much in this league for television and not enough for the players. It’s very disheartening to look at scheduling and see that. Granted, TV’s important, but it shouldn’t run the league.

We got to play probably the two best teams in the conference besides Connecticut back-to-back in the road for television. That’s just crazy.

He couldn’t get playing tonight. It’s as simple as that.

I have a number in mind, I think it should probably be about four to six, somewhere in there. The problem really is that it shouldn’t come down to logistics.

The days we don’t make shots are going to be long nights for us. Anytime you shoot 1-for-19 from the 3-point line, you’re usually going to lose. We held our composure pretty well.

He hadn’t been in the whole game, and he comes into that situation and if he misses then they have a shot to go ahead.

He amazes me every time I see him play. He has more guts than anybody I’ve ever coached. As soon as he released it, there was never a doubt. There was nothing but net.

We just had a lack of patience in the first half. It caused us all kinds of problems.

If you watched the game, you knew why he wasn’t in the game. Gerry could not make plays tonight. If anything, I played him too much.

They’re just too strong for us right now, … Pittsburgh is a veteran team. I thought they were underrated all along.

He’s the kind of player that everybody likes because he goes out, plays and gives it everything he’s got every game. I think that’s what people admire and respect about him.

This is a great lesson for all these guys. They can win without Gerry. It will help make them stronger. It gives us a chance to rest Gerry.

It had nothing to do with the law or breaking rules. He just had some personal issues he had to deal with. We’ve never talked about it, and we never will. I’m sure Billy never...

I believe his achievements are more than many people realize. He’s going to finish his career in some pretty good company.

We can’t beat them anywhere else. They’ve killed us four straight games, except for the two here.

Every game’s tough, and you have to play well every game. We’ve got to start playing better or we’re going to struggle.

Is he the best player in the league? No, he’s not. But he’s the most important player on any team in the league. When Allan Ray is hurt, Villanova wins. If one or two guys...

I just don’t think you can have four teams not go to your tournament. It’s not healthy. I tried to convince the people in the league and our coaches. We had a halfhearted fight about...

We relied on Hakim (Warrick) and Gerry a little bit too much last year.

If you win, it doesn’t matter if a Martian coaches your team. I hope I’m not hurting any Martians’ feelings that are listening, but Indiana fans are like any other fans. They liked Mike Davis...

We’ve got bad foul shooters, what can I say? We won.

Our biggest problem has been defending people. Offensively we played pretty well but it’s pretty disappointing at this time of the year that we can’t stop people on defense. We’re fortunate we’ve won as many...

Most of the people in the Hall are on a different level from me,

Our offense is killing us. As much as it has been the other team, it’s been ourselves.

We’ve been way behind against quality teams, but we keep fighting back. This team fights hard. They make some mistakes, but they keep fighting. When you lose four in a row and do what we...

We didn’t do a very good job on the offensive glass.

There’s a level of familiarity that can be helpful if you’ve been here before. It’s not a magic bullet, but it helps.

We’re happy. To be able to play these games early in the year is tremendous for our team. We’re just beginning to try to shape our team. We won’t be able to do things at...

We had the worst defensive effort in the 30 years I’ve been coaching.

I think if you can beat the No. 1 team in the country, you should be in.

We gave them too many easy baskets off turnovers in the first half.

Our schedule is difficult, we know that. We’re not going into the Big East off six or seven easy wins. We’ve had to battle. Now we’ve got more of the same ahead of us.

I’m glad we won a couple of games because I would have said this anyway. But people would have thought I was just upset because we lost three games, which we could have. The worst...

I don’t want a doubling-type thing. I think there should be some teams added. I’m not looking at it like one or two. I’m not looking at 20 either. I think there should be an...

It’s a matter of accepting what he can do. He needed to be patient. That’s a tough thing to do as a player, but this was a game that was made for him.

Gerry went out, we were down five. He never came back. When you lose your best player without any practice time or anything, that’s a huge mountain to overcome.

It seemed for a long time there that we made the finals every year and took it for granted. It has been a while.

We’ve been to the finals a lot and we want to play well. It will be a tough game.

When they caught us, and they caught us three or four times, we kept going. Usually, when that happens, you let it go away a little bit. But these guys (Syracuse player) wouldn’t let it...

I questioned the toughness of our players.

Maybe I should be fined.

We keep playing all these teams, we’re going to find that assistant coach who thinks he’s overrated. Or that guy is already home.

Some guys win a game once in a while. I don’t think anybody has won four games in a row making the play in the game.

They should have never hired Bobby Knight.

He couldn’t play those last two games. I had to take him out. He played like himself in the first half and we needed that. Our offense has been terrible and we need him to...

I had to laugh when our student newspaper called him overrated. Without Gerry McNamara, we wouldn’t have won 10 games this year. The other guys just aren’t ready. They needed him. We wouldn’t even have...

It’s certainly a tremendous challenge. I don’t know if it’ll be any tougher than when we had three Final Four teams and two teams get to the Sweet Sixteen. It can’t be much tougher than...

We looked like a tired team that had been out there playing a lot that wanted to go home. We need a few days off. It’s sad that you have to play such great games...

I’d say it’s one of the best, if not the best that we’ve ever had at Syracuse. That’s over 44 years at Syracuse.

Gerry was able to get in the lane and the big guys reacted better, I think, than they have. They got open a little bit better.