We’re not really doing a good job of getting our offense going, getting rhythm and getting the ball to our shooters.

This is the best, by far.

Connecticut really dominated inside, as they are going to do against most people. We’ve got to get our offense going if we’re going to have any chance to be where we would like to be...

New Orleans means a lot to me. To win on the same court we lost on was a tremendous experience. … To see what’s happened to New Orleans is even more difficult for me because...

You have to have tough, physical guys to get away with that. That’s what Villanova has. The advantage is you get a big advantage on offense but a disadvantage on defense. But I think it...

He got guys like Dave Bing to come to Syracuse at a time when the program was really down, … He made me realize that the foundation for any good team is good players. There...

What Mike has done is certainly in the same category as what John Wooden did. It’s an awfully, awfully impressive thing in today’s world.

I was a little surprised we were able to get back in it so quickly. We just started off the game so poorly on both sides of the ball – defense and offense – and...

I think this year more than ever has proven there are teams that might not get in or just barely get in that can win games. In the past, years ago, I think there were...

They’re a very good defensive team, and they deserved to win the basketball game.

Our defense was terrible. We were just absolutely terrible.

The last two games we’ve played as well as we have all year. We just want to keep playing well. We’ve been there (in the NCAA tournament) before. We’ve got veteran guys that know what...

Gerry wouldn’t let it get away. He was playing on about half-a-leg today. He amazes me every time I see him play. He’s got more guts than anybody I’ve ever coached.

He just had a fluke injury in practice, and we’re hoping he’ll be back soon. We’re hopeful he would be able to play fairly soon, but we don’t know.

That’s just stupid. We need to look at the right way to do things instead of the way we’re doing them now.

We were trying to manage [McNamara’s] minutes.

We’ve got to score on the perimeter. There’s no secret there. … If we don’t score on the perimeter, we’re not going to score. Offensively we have to get better.

No question, he’s given us a foothold in Scranton, but Gerry’s appeal goes way beyond there. I think he’s revived interest among fans in the Syracuse and Rochester areas, too. People can identify with him....

I think any coach that can get a Carmelo Anthony will take them, I don?t care what they say. That?s college basketball right now. Until they establish an [NBA] age [limit] or something, you just...

It was a great, great tournament. I’m really glad for Gerry. He started his career a little bit, probably a little bit too good, and where are you going to go after that? But he’s...

Today was the best we’ve run our offense all season.

A team that can beat anybody, any night, any place. I still think they’re the best team in our conference, and I think they’re the best team in the country.

These (conference) tournaments are so underdog-oriented. Teams that have to win, they’re playing their hearts out. . . . You’re going to beat teams that maybe are better. The real truth is, the teams that...

I think actually coming out of the tournament this year, we’re better than we were coming out last year.

Roy was a great motivator, a guy with great energy, … He was a very good practice coach. He had a way of keeping everybody enthusiastic and fired up every day, and that’s important when...

These guys have grown, stepped it up and grown up. That should help us a lot this next week. Gerry made the big plays, but these other guys stepped it up. I think that’s why...

They got off to a little bit of a bad start. And we didn’t take advantage of that.

We never made it through nine holes, … If you were smart, you would have bet the under every time.

Connecticut is a team that can beat anybody, anytime, anyplace. They’re the best team in our league, in the country. They’ve been there. They know what they’re doing. They’ve got veteran guys who know how...

We never made it through nine holes,

These guys wouldn’t let it get away. Gerry wouldn’t let it get away. He amazes me. He’s got more guts that anyone I’ve ever coached.

Our inside people can’t score against you. Our centers haven’t contributed for a couple games now, and that doesn’t make it easier.

We don’t make excuses. They played well defensively and they deserved to win the game.

He won’t make excuses, I won’t make excuses. If you watched the game, you know why he wasn’t in the game [at the end].

We’re still, you know, making some mistakes – some unforced mistakes that cost you. They could have cost us tonight.

I think the league is so deep, it makes everybody better.

We made a couple bad mistakes at the end of the game. And fortunately Gerry corrected them.

He made the ones we needed early to get some separation. He got the ball to people very well and he made a couple of tough shots, and missed some easy ones.

The second half in both these games, we came out, we got better looks and our offense got going. We got back into the game tonight, (then) we had three bad offensive possessions in a...

It’s a great win. I’d say it’s one of the best we’ve ever had at Syracuse and I’ve only been here about 44 years.

This was one of those nights when we weren’t going to be denied.

He made some bad choices and got in some bad situations but we need him to make plays. We don’t have other guys to make plays.

Our defense was the best it’s been all year in the first half and most of the second half. At the end the game just got crazy, I don’t know what you’d call that.

Gerry had as good a four games here as anybody I’ve ever seen. He just wanted to win.

They won’t let you shoot it. But if they do, shoot it!

Before the start of the conference, Eastern basketball was quite fragmented, … The Big East gave Eastern basketball a national identity, and the Dome was the perfect stage for those nationally televised games.

We just really couldn’t stop them defensively enough to get to where we wanted to go. They shot the ball well. They played well, … We made some uncharacteristically bad turnovers in this game that...

I didn’t like the non-calls. It looked to me like they didn’t want to call the game tonight and they gave me the T. I’ve never been thrown out of a game. I wanted the...

We have three games in one week, which means you’ll have one day of practice. Somehow, we need to get a little more proper spacing with the games.

The good thing about New York was that we had good balance. That’s something that we didn’t have last year. With Hakim and Gerry, we just didn’t have the balance that we do this year.