Hopefully they will enjoy tomorrow. Hopefully they will have fun tomorrow, regardless of how the game plays out. Hopefully they’ll have a memory they’ll cherish for the rest of their lives, and they know they...

We’re not paying attention to any of that foolishness. What we’re paying attention to is that we want Pops to get double-digit rebounds. I want J.R. to take better shots. I want (senior forward) Mike...

If you’re going to go to the Final Four, win the Final Four, at some point you’re going to have to play Duke.

We recruit and do things the right way.

How about his defense? How about him guarding his man?

I was very pleased with his first game. He made his first 3, but I was more concerned with his effort sprinting back on defense. It’s going to take some time for him.

We were very, very fortunate to win the game. We made some tough 3s down the stretch, and we were able to get one or two key turnovers, and I thought that was the only...

I think if you wanted to, I guess you could have enough information to support that, if you wanted to take that side of it.

He was outstanding tonight. He brought a great deal of energy. He’s a talented player and he’s playing better every game.

We had the ball inside and they took it from us. Pops had a couple of shots inside — dunks he usually makes and he missed them. That really affected our shooting percentage. A large...

The guys had to respond because they were going into a situation where they hadn’t been before. We never told them if Pops was coming back or not coming back.

This is the first time this year we have had to deal with true adversity. We’ve been very fortunate.

To me, they’re the best team in this league. We got to go there we’ve got to play an ‘A’ game to win.

I thought our team played with a great deal of effort. We had a tough mountain to try and climb today. We lost to a very good program and I thought we played as hard...

You guys are making it very difficult to try to match expectations now.

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,...