Jay Wright Hoot Quotations

I told him, 'We're going to go down with you shooting the ball. That's who we are.

We'll just toss it out as a poor shooting night.

I wanted him to shoot more. I said, 'I'm not going to start you unless you shoot.' Believe it or not, he's unselfish.

His leg strength is at about 90 percent of where it was before. He's doing resistance work and is shooting every day.

They are probably more skilled at every position than any Big East team that we play against because everybody can handle it, pass it, shoot it well. They remind me of Connecticut, but with their size at every position and with the way they push the ball at you, they are just a little more skilled at each spot.

South Florida was well-prepared and did a good job. It wasn't a case of us going out on the road and not being able to shoot well. Their defense had a lot to do with it. We just tried to tough it out and play hard for 40 minutes. That team is going to win some games in this league.

In the first half, that kept us in it, because we weren't shooting the ball very well.

I don't want to make this complicated, but we have really good players. We have guards that can shoot and score and they can go rebound the ball.

He's such an unselfish player. I told him he was going to have to shoot the ball or he was going to sit -- it was that simple.

They were shooting over us. And you could really see them hitting the offensive boards as part of their game plan.

We want to shoot 3s. We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

We want to shoot 3s, ... We have great confidence in Allan and Mike and Randy, especially. Those three are pretty deadly.

Defensively, they're so big at every position. We tried early with Mike (Nardi) to stick with our four guards, but he got two fouls so we had to come with Shane (Clark). They were just too big. We couldn't rebound and they were shooting over us.

We ran into a team that played better basketball than us. I think we can play a lot better and we can shoot a lot better, and the other team had a lot to do with that. They were really good.