Tom Crean Played Quotations

Louisville played excellent and they played hard. It was a very hard, intense battle, one of the most intense battles I've ever been associated with. They had a couple more big plays than we did at the end.

Look what Syracuse did; they couldn't have played any worse against DePaul a week ago and they just won four great games. Anything can happen this time of year.

I think the way he attacked and the way he went to the rim, especially in the second half, he played with just a fierce energy which was really good.

Playing 40 minutes of defense was the absolute key. We thought last week that we played about 20 minutes of solid defense, and we lost our defensive intensity in the second half.

They had a good game plan of grabbing and holding and keeping Steve from getting open looks. The credit goes to them. They played a great game.