Gary Waters Four Quotations

My intentions are to focus on the next four or five games.

We had a plan to get to the Final Four and we came pretty close. We should win 17, 18 this year and there is no doubt in my mind Rutgers should be in the NCAA Tournament next season.

We had a plan to get to the Final Four and we came pretty close.

We played a bad game (against Providence) but do you know with four minutes to go we're down seven and they're shooting 60 percent and we're shooting in the 30s? That tells you if we shoot 60 percent we're up 20 points. That's what I had to tell our kids -- we're not that far off. But we can't afford to go and have a half like that ever.

I wanted to clear the air. I wanted everyone to know my intent and have my team able to focus on the next four or five games, if we have that many, and not have them hurt in this process.

I have to give DePaul a great deal of credit because they could have backed down in that game when we were up by eight in the last four minutes of the game. But they kept fighting.