40 Quotes by Bill Carmody

When you don't have an inside presence, you have to rely on your (outside) shooting, and we just weren't able to do it.

We're the worst three-point shooting team in the league. We shot 31 against them last time. We said we weren't going to do that again.

At Northwestern I have to continue to do it. If there's a kid in the Midwest, for instance, and other schools in the Big Ten want him, I might be the third or fourth guy on the list. I'm not getting kids, so I have to go elsewhere. That's true in the other conferences. If you're not the top dog then it's tough to recruit the same area, so I have to go elsewhere.

At the start of the game we simplified (the offense), just went with a couple things. But when they weren't working, we probably went to some pipe-dream things.

Dillon made big play after big play for them. He really hurt us tonight.

Don't tell anybody how we did it. I don't want anyone else to know.

I should have called a timeout. I'm upset with myself. I take full responsibility. I have to make that call.

I've said and I still say they are the surprise, to me, of this conference, that they are doing what they're doing. They had to replace so many people. They're still overachieving in my view.

The speed, shooting and quickness of both teams is pretty daunting. But I think we're playing decently right now so it's as good a time as any to go on the road.