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.

Even though you wouldn’t want to be in that play-in game, you’re still in the tournament. That’s a lot better feeling than not being in the tournament.

I don’t think the overall identity of the conference has changed. We’ve been a good conference, and we are a good conference. There’s more teams, I guess that’s the change. The only thing that people...

This is a great lesson for all the guys. They can win without Gerry.

When Gerry got the ball coming down, I set something up. I told him (to) drive and give it to one of three guys at the end of regulation. He looked at me and said,...

Seven rebounds, that’s pretty special. (He played) 14 minutes and got seven rebounds. Our other center (Darryl Watkins) got one rebound in 25 minutes, so that’s pretty good.

Gerry’s got a pretty badly bruised thigh, but I think this rest will be good and he’ll be able to come back next week.

Those guys have to be ready to step up and play. This is the opportunity for them. We’ll see how they handle that.

Some guys win one game once in a while, in a year or two. I don’t think anybody’s ever won four games in a row by making ‘the’ play of the game. That’s pretty special.

Defensively, we did a good job, as well as you could expect at this stage of the year. We really helped each other. Our inside guys did a nice job. We really didn’t give them...

When you lose your best player without any practice time or anything (to prepare), that’s a huge mountain to overcome. I think this is a great lesson for the other guys, that they can win...

If they beat me, I’ll just have to raise more than they do next time.

I think Pittsburgh is a top 10 team. I always have all year. That’s a great challenge for us.

There’s no doubt in my mind we needed to win [two] games. I think we would have deserved to be in after one, but I think we had to win two.

Darryl probably played as well in that game as any center we’ve ever had in the minutes he played. He’s got to be able to sustain that over 30 minutes, stay out of foul trouble...

It’s our offense. We made too many turnovers and we missed too many lay-ups. I just told the players we’re not going to win any games if we miss eight lay-ups and we turn it...

You can’t let him get loose. He showed what he can do when it gets open by hitting those two threes in the second half. For the most part, we did a good job of...

If we can continue with that kind of balance, we will play well here.

We just weren’t active enough in it. We’re capable of getting out and playing. We just didn’t. We were just absolutely terrible defensively.

Eric took the same shots he did against Connecticut except they blocked them.

You know, they’re a gambling pressure team. Eric just got a little careless a couple times.

It’s an overwhelming feeling to be here. It’s a tremendous honor to be here and walk through this building.

At times maybe he could play harder. It comes and goes. We need more consistency from him. He’s our inside presence.

I think I may be more excited about coaching than I’ve ever been, … I think I realize that I’m closer to the end than I am to the beginning. I know I don’t have...

Dave Bing is the player who raised this program from the ashes, … He made all this possible.

We really should be thinking, like, eight or 10 more teams get in.