Temple played a fantastic game. The elder statesman showed that he still knows how to get a team up and prepared to win a basketball game.

That’s what I was wondering. I told coach (Darrell) Brooks, ‘Who scheduled this game?’ Games are very tough for us to get. We want to try to get as many homes games as possible. This...

It’s great for the fans; I think it means more to them. Maybe at the end of the season I can reflect on it. But when you’re in the middle of the season and you...

They were a better team than us. It was clear to me and I was right there watching it. I thought they had better basketball players. Their experience really showed itself.

They’ve had classy kids and when you walk in their facility, you know basketball is important at that school. They’ve dominated us. They are the only program in this conference that has truly dominated us.

I am not going to put a number on minutes on him. We are going to see how the flow goes and see how he is doing. This is it. We’re not holding him for...

He was outstanding tonight. I liked how he was able to take control in the huddle, they responded to that. He’s a talented player and is playing better every game as he gets more comfortable...

I thought he was fabulous. He did all the things we needed him to do to win. We needed every rebound, every basket, and what I liked was absolutely every time we needed him to...

I’m not sure where we belong [in the national rankings] and I honestly mean that, but I want to make sure that when we go [to Xavier] that we play great defense, we take good...

There ain’t a whole lot of difference between the talent of my team and these teams. That’s what makes it so amazing, what these guys have accomplished.

Obviously I’m excited about it, but at the same time I’m very realistic. For me, it doesn’t mean a whole lot in the grand scheme of the whole season.

I really felt like when we got the game manageable and had the opportunity to score in some situations, we just didn’t execute. You have to be able to execute against a team like this.

They’ve dominated us. I don’t know another word to use. To me, they’re the best team in this league. I really believe that.

We have such depth that when the other team gets tired around the eight minute or seven minute mark, we make our move. We’ve done some tremendous things around that time this year.

We wanted to have our defense generate some offense for us. We scored 23 points [in the first half Wednesday night] against St. Louis. … We wanted our defense to create some opportunities for us...

I thought we got out of the gate pretty early. Pops established our inside presence, which is what we wanted to do tonight due to the lack of experience among their inside guys.

We got the ball inside a lot, got some really good looks at the basket and the ball just wouldn’t go down for us. We missed some lay-ups and missed a lot of short jumpers,...

Thank God he did slip through the cracks. To me, it’s about the sacrifice a single mother had to make to see her son on Senior Day and no mother should have to be subjected...

We’re a different basketball team with Pops in the lineup. It makes a world of difference.

Every time he steps on the court, he’s the focal point. Everything starts with him.

The guys struggled with that.

I don’t know if it’s fair or not, but I like it. It sounds good.

We really missed him today, particularly just trying to establish an inside game to establish a tone. He’s a hard guy to replace.

Let’s have some poise. Let’s have some patience.

I don’t know if any other team is under the same amount of pressure. They can never relax. It’s truly amazing.

I don’t know if it’s fair or not fair, but I kind of like it. Hey, let’s go with that.

He loves the college life. If he wasn’t an athlete and had an opportunity to play professionally, he would be one of those guys who would stay in college and try to get four or...

We are going to continue to play the way we have been. It’s a great opportunity for some guys to step up. … I think they will respond to the challenge.

We’re in position to have a great season. That’s all we’ve done, put ourselves in position to possibly have a great finish.

It had nothing to do with our shooting. It had something to do with our mind-set and our focus.

The game could have gone either way.

We’re a different team with Pops in the lineup. He creates so much attention just being on the floor.

We are anticipating that he will be back within a couple weeks.

We’ve totally ignored [comments]. We haven’t paid any attention to it at all. [We] are just playing basketball.

This has to rank up there with the No. 1 game since I’ve been coaching. For it to end in such a dramatic fashion, you couldn’t ask for a better way to close it out...

If it’s a decision where it looks like he’s coming back a little too early and I think it may jeopardize his long-term ability to play in the NBA, then he won’t come back.

Our defense allowed the game to be played at a much faster pace and I think that was the difference.

They’ve been consistently excellent because they don’t go changing things.

Doesn’t the record state it? Look at the results. To be quite honest, guys just didn’t know Saint Louis. They’re a very good basketball team.

I also believe that it was competitively motivated.

I’m not so sure mentally we were prepared at the beginning. And that will be addressed.

We haven’t become a bad basketball team because of one game. It’s not anything to start panicking about or anything to be concerned about. We did some uncharacteristic things in that basketball game that we...

We were undisciplined and didn’t have enough patience. It was more [Duke’s defense] in the first half. But we just didn’t execute, particularly in the second half.

It’s amazing that we were able to will ourselves to this game. I thought we played our hearts out, we never gave up, and played hard on every possession.

We’ve been in this situation before.

Our program is based on developing players. Our players have improved physically and in every area of the game since they’ve been here. We don’t get the kind of players I could recruit at Connecticut,...

I thought we played very well. Both teams were trying to force their will and style on each other. Obviously, Carl Elliott hit some big shots.

I was so impressed with St. Bonaventure tonight. It’s kind of unfortunate they’re playing their best basketball now. I truly believe they got a couple wins left in them. Unfortunately, the season has kind of...

Our intensity was terrific. I thought we forced them to have to play the way we wanted them to play. They had been able to dictate their style of play against everyone and we wanted...

Either let them do it or don’t. Don’t tell them ‘hey you can go do this’ but not let them take any money.