Kevin Pittsnogle Quotations

We're moving on, and that's definitely a good thing. We lost the game, and now we play Syracuse Monday night. It's great to be able to have a chance to get off this game and have another one.

We've been in every game at the end. Our energy on defense, we haven't been picking it up like we need to.

Mainly, we've been in every game at the end. But we haven't been executing like we know we can at the end of games.

Momentum helps, but last season, we went to the Big East with no momentum. We're in the same situation again.

More than the loss, I think it (hurts) more that we'll never play together as a team. We have so much fun together and love each other.

We thought we had a pretty good shot at going into overtime. We hopped on our defense. But they found a guy, and he just tossed it up and it went in. It was kind of an up-and-down situation.

It ate at me. I thought about it. We were not leaving this locker room without a win.

I think as of late we haven't relied on the three as much as we normally do. We kind of relied more on penetration and kicking it out and getting 15-foot jump shots.

I think that's what we're more sad about than losing the game. We're not going to play again.

I think I had a lot of open looks, but I just didn't knock them down, especially in the second half.

I think Gray made me a better player. I think we made each other better. The first game, he shut me down. The second game, I kind of took away something from him. And the third game, we both scored a little bit, but he got the better of it in the Big East tournament.

I'm still glad I said it. There's nothing wrong with what I said. I think it was just more like confidence.

We have a lot of people come up to us and thank us for just coming to school there and playing basketball after the year they had before we got there. When we started, it was 4,000 (fans per game), and now, our arena is up to 14,000. It's just tremendous to have that kind of fan support.

We're used to being underdogs. It won't bother us. It doesn't mean anything in a tournament like this.

With the team that's coming in here, and the team we have, it should be a March Madness atmosphere. They've got good shooters outside and some good bangers inside, so they're a tough team to match up against.

We've been down since Pitt. Our energy is always great at this time of the year, and especially this year. You have to be ready to play when it could be your last game.

We are ready to get rolling. People are tired of the preseason. I am still getting people coming up to me all the time, telling me that it was a great run. It happens everywhere. We're known now. And I think there are a lot of guys on the team that are confident. But none that are cocky. Everyone saw what we did last year, and it will be tough to repeat it.

We are ready to get rolling, ... People are tired of the preseason. I am still getting people coming up to me all the time, telling me that it was a great run. It happens everywhere. We're known now. And I think there are a lot of guys on the team that are confident. But none that are cocky. Everyone saw what we did last year, and it will be tough to repeat it.

We didn't play too well. We still were able to stick around and get the win. We knew it was going to be tough. Anytime you play on the road in the Big East, it's a tough game no matter who they are.

We don't have to win this game to get into the tournament, but we still want to win to keep the momentum going.

We were wide open when we passed the ball into the middle of the 2-3. So, that's what we tried to do in the second half.

We have given away leads. We know we will make the plays at the end of the game. We are a senior-laden team and we know how to win games.

We just haven't been playing defense with the same energy.

When you go 0-fer in a game against somebody, you've got something to prove the next time you play that team.

We've just got to start winning. We know we've got a tough game at Syracuse, but we've got to turn this around now and get back to winning.

We've played ranked teams all season and we'll be ready to play them again.

This team is bigger. With that tall lineup, they have the better inside game against almost every team they play against. I don't think there's another team in America with guys 6-9, 6-10 and 6-11 starting in their front court.

Coming here and beating them, it was tremendous. They were hitting incredible shots, but we can shoot with anybody.

It was an up and down swing of emotions. But that happens in basketball.

Our energy on defense was probably better than it's been all year. We didn't like the way we played against Pitt. We wanted to change it.

Our energy is great around this time of year. This could be our last game at any time since we're all seniors.

Our energy is always great around this time of year. We're always ready to play, especially since it could be the last game at any time for us seniors.

Of course, we're a different team when Mike is out there because he's one of our best players.

Once we were down we thought we could get back into it by making shots and making good plays. You get down by three or four, it's all right. But if you're down 10 or 12 it's really hard, no matter how good your shooters are, to get back into it.

It was a tough game on our court, so I imagine it will be a tough game there. You don't want to end the regular season on a losing note, so we'll do everything we can to prevent that.

It's tough to get shots over him because he's so long.

It's been a long ride, but it's been a lot of fun. We've had a lot of good wins and a couple bad losses, but, mostly, it's been great fun.

It's something I've gotten used to since last year. It's something that I can go back and show my kids.

They made a great shot. They deserved to win. They're the better team.

It was horrible, something I don't like doing. But I have to. My mom ( Tammy ) is here, and she keeps the baby on game nights.

I'm definitely going to try to establish an inside game for our team. I'll try to get open shots outside, but I'm going inside first.

I kind of tried to forget about it as much as possible. I really doubted myself after the game, didn't want to talk to anybody. I got into the gym the next couple weeks and practiced free throws, a couple hundred a day every day until I made them.

I personally have a lot of motivation to play well against them. I'm hoping to have the best game of the year, hopefully. We'll see what happens.

I had a lot of open looks that I just didn't knock down. My teammates did, so we got the win.

If you need to know anything, Justin knows more than I do.

In past year's we've lost to them on last-minute shots. We were just hoping it would not go in.

I had heard rumors that I couldn't dunk, so I figured I would get some. We were able to take more inside shots instead of relying so much on the outside shot.

I don't know how to explain it. We might have pressed a little bit.