Our place is filled every night and buses come with us on the road. This has created such excitement and as long as we take it in stride, we have some size and some handlers,...

This is so neat for the school and everything like that. I won’t play it down because it’s wonderful for people to have that kind of respect for our program. At the same time, we...

We just wanted to enjoy it for so long.

I don’t mean to be a tyrant. A couple threes here and there, and you want to go and slop it up. That’s not these kids. They haven’t been like that all year. I wanted...

Our inside effort really took it in the second half.

I haven?t had any questions about the kids and where they?re taking shots. I get excited when we?re aggressive coming off screens and taking shots, even when (defenders) are trailing. But I can?t force them....

The biggest thing for me has been enjoying my kids and enjoying the game. It has been a lot of fun this season.

Those kids know what to do and to not play to the crowd. He knows the rules. He needs to be smart enough not to do something like that.

I think going to Pitt and winning and Saint Joe’s got the ball rolling and as we went along we got confidence.

They have about 14 guys we can talk about. Washington runs the engines so quick. He does a great job getting them into their tempo. They’re very impressive. It starts with him.

It is a big game in a sense of being a TV game that’s big for our conferences, but first we have a league game that’s huge. Then we’ll be on a national scale and...

I think the kids were really focused. There was an edge to everybody. As we went out there, we knew we were going to get American’s best shot. We always played good defense.

They’re everything they are built up to be. The biggest compliment that I can pay is they play so hard. They’re the No. 1 team in the country and they play hard every day. The...

I think a lot of things happen that we play the way we do.

This is the way it?s going to be every game. I told the guys to embrace it, not fight it, then go out and have fun playing the game.

I think going to Pitt and winning and St. Joe’s got the ball rolling and as we went along we got confidence.

You have to keep going and realize it’s part of life. In that, we want everyone to share in the things that have happened to us.

You knew they were going to hit some deep shots, and we just had to keep grinding and grinding. I thought Donald Brown on the boards in the second half really mixed it up. I...

I’m not a guy that goes anywhere, but tonight I am.

We just had to keep grinding and grinding.

Three-pointers are part of the game. Obviously we have some guys that can shoot the basketball, that’s why it ended up being along the perimeter because they were so strong physically inside.

(The players) may not be giddy. But I?m still giddy.

It was a great game. The kids left it all out there. It was the kind of game where you thought you had it, and it got away.

When we get back, we’ll have some beers.

We found a combination there that was moving the basketball, and I thought we were pretty fresh with it. We got the spurt. I thought we were getting better and better shots.

That?s pretty impressive, nationally, that they think of us as a ninth seed. I think it?s recognition of who we played and who we beat.

The last two games, Charles has been our rock. He was a big key.

I think we have to take care of the ball in order to get some quick shots against them. They are obviously great athletes, great players. They get the ball up and down very quickly....

We haven?t even mentioned that. It was fit into our season, but it?s in the middle of our league schedule. Right now, the league is most important.

We know we’re a good basketball team. Even with rankings and all that sort of stuff, if you really knew our program you’d know these kids play for each other.

Charles used to drag Donald (Brown) to the gym every day. (Lee) worked with (Brown), helped him with his confidence.

Because of the financial situation, we used to get to the end of the steak dinner, and then you ask them to pay 42,000 dollars, and that was usually a deal-breaker. Now you can sit...

To be honest, we don’t know a whole lot yet about Arkansas, other than that they played very good basketball down the stretch.

We could have a 10th spot, if we find the right kid. But that?s still to be determined.

More than anything, it has been trusting and having confidence in our kids. It has been a lot of fun this year. Every time we have played, we have made a pact early to let...

I don?t see him playing this year. He?s really not getting a whole lot better. There?s been nothing official yet. We?re just going to wait until (classes) get back, talk to the doctor and go...

I thought we got a good boost from our bench early. They really got us going.

With 10 minutes to go, we felt like we had the game. But we learned what that kind of speed is. You cannot simulate how quick they are.

We did it the right way, we scheduled the right way.

In the first half we were a little impatient. They knocked us out of some things we were trying to do.

Brown has been tremendous all year long, at the beginning, I don’t know if he was wound up a little bit or what. He made some great plays down the stretch and he really came...

We?re from Pennsylvania. I?m not even sure they know where they?re at.

I almost threw them out. It was more like (the players saying), ‘When’s the game going to get here?

To be given a nine seed, the highest ever for a team from the Patriot League, shows that our program earned the respect of the selection committee and college basketball followers across the country.

We’ll start grinding as soon as we leave here. (Today) we’ll go back in there (for practice) and Tuesday as well.

The ebb and flow, the highs and lows . . . I think we’re still feeling it because it was the kind of game where you felt you had it, and let it get away.

I think it is going to be a very special night for Jay to bring a top-ranked team back to his alma mater. For me, it is a chance to welcome a close friend back...

It comes down to wills, and these kids didn’t quit.

We?re trying to keep as much of a routine as possible. If you change that, it gets into the kids? heads and they think this is something different.

It was just the kind of thing where we didn’t read it well. That was a miscommunication, and they happen in the game.