Mike MacDonald Quotations

I think Jared Jordan is a special player ... he makes guys around him better.

It's a simple game. If you make shots, you do a lot better. We just didn't make shots, and we had great looks. We played well enough defensively to win. . . . We have to come up with a better answer for Collins.

He was tremendous. We just haven't done a good job on him in the two games. Not many people have.

We can't change what's happened, but we can learn from it. All we can focus on now is the next three weeks and moving forward.

That's what we have to do, especially on the road.

The two of us have always had a policy we'd never play. But the (HSBC) Arena got involved and wanted to see John's team come in. We needed to play there next season (as a rehearsal game for the 2007 NCAA Tournament regional). We were both desperate for games and we decided to do it.

I didn't think about it. It's not like I was looking down there (at the West Virginia bench) every time. One time out of a timeout we ran a play and they ran the exact same play the next possession. That was kind of ironic.

It's a funny career the way it's gone. There's a classic example of turning a negative into a positive.

It's the salvation a tournament gives you that you're looking to find. You have a chance for redemption. We have so many Catholic schools in the league, I guess we can say it's absolution. We can have all our sins absolved with a good weekend.

Our guys can't just play 12 minutes in the first half and 12 in the second half. Hopefully we can build on this and take it to the next game, but we have to be careful because it wasn't a win.