"They have Big East talent; Big East caliber players on that team. They come out of high school, maybe they are not Big East players. But they come into this program, they get coached, they get nurtured and now they are juniors and seniors and they are Big East caliber players. They are not beating the teams they beat without good players."

"I always felt like they could make a run at us."

"That is the advantage of having seniors. We know that Allan and randy are going to make big plays offensively . . . We just know that Allan and randy can make big plays when we need them."

"That three was huge. He misses that and it is a one-posession game. You get in game like that here, anything can happen."

"I was sitting in (the locker room) listening to that and I remembered when I played here, that is what the place was like in Davis Gym. We used to sit in the locker room thinking 'we know we are going to win.' I was sitting here thinking 'I know they are thinking they are going to win.' It was really strange, being in that position."

"He is outstanding. There is a good example. He is a Big East caliber player."

"They blew that, man. They blew it. They are not Cinderellas anymore. Theree was no problem. Our guys know how good they are. They watched that Kansas game. I talked to them aboiut it to."

"They see two teams in our league beaten on the road, they knew."

"When Abe Badmus got in a little bit of foul trouble, that had a little bit of an effect."

"You see why? We have to play them again. They have to come to our place next year. Think about it. Think about the guys -- Lee and Bettencourt are the only seniors. The kid they have, Castleberry from Baltimore, is an outstanding player. I have to deal with them next year, then we will think about (extending the series)."

"Pat Flannery played on my heartstrings, getting me to do this ... he gave me the 'it would be so nice, everybody would like to see you come back.' He didn't mention before you come back we are going to knock off about five ranked teams. He didn't throw that out."

"This is the second best place in the nation to play college ball. At one time I thought it was the first."

"You can't hear anything in here. The end of the first half, we were trying to call a play. We had no idea what we were in. This place has a great effect on the game."

"They are a tough team when they get up on you. They defend the three-point line very well . . . Once they get up on you, you are really fighting uphill."

"We fought and got back into it. We had our opportunities. I don't know if we didn't have enough gas. We played a lot of minutes against a real quality opponent. It looked like we just couldn't finish."

"Ten minutes to go, we thought we had the game. Some shots didn't fall."

"He is a special kid with special talents. He is so fast and so quick. They really played the passing lanes very well, which is something he has not seen all the time. But when you put him one on one out front there, he is tough to keep in front. He kept us in there with his penetration and his effort."

"They were playing so hard on Kevin (Bettencourt), face guarding him on the wing. And they were playing Chris straight up in there, then coming to double team. It was opening up the floor so we just cut him loose a little more."

"When he got his third, and then his fourth foul, we thought if we could keep it there and maybe get it to the five minute mark, I could still have him for his fifth foul. But when we had to sit him, we lost a lot of our foot speed."

"They are dynamite. They are special, the way they play. That is really unique."

"They are really special, the way they play and the way they shoot. They made some tough shots."

"We've been the ones that have been booed all the time. We kept saying, Villanova hasn't been booed all year. We thought maybe if we could get them in a tough one. But when they get up, they are even better. When they got up in the first half, everybody was making jumpers and going."

"You try to go big on them, and they are small, you are trading threes for twos. SO you really can't, especially not in our group."

"I thought in that stretch, when we got back there, I thought we were in good shape, then they came out of a timeout and hit a three. It had gotten down to four and it pushed it back up to seven. Then we came down and missed two in a row where we had four-footers where we were getting penetration and now all of a sudden, it goes to 10."

"That is as short a bench as we have used all year. It is as short a bench as I have gone. We were just afraid. When we got down, we couldn't tempo it, so we had to keep our guns in there. Even guns who were not playing well, I had a tough time getting them out to settle them down and get them back in because there was nothing we could do defending them if we didn't keep our top guys in there. It was a lot more than we are used to. We usually get to spell them a little bit."

"I have played against quick people all my life. That was nothing new. But these guys were just, damn, it was just a lot more quick people on the same team . . . They were very talented I was really impressed by the overall skill that they had."

"We were down 19 early in the game. We fought back and gave it all we had. We pulled within three, and you know you are back in the game, then they hit that tough three and that just drops you right back. It is just hard. They got up early on us and we tried to get back in the game. We just never got over the hill. It is tough against a team like that, to play from behind all the time."

"They hit some tough, tough shots. Randy Foye, he's great. In the paint he is tough to stop."