49 Quotes by Doug Bruno

My team impressed me again in their ability to comprehend and understand what I was going through.

Basketball is a game of easy baskets ... and we had no place to go for easy baskets.

Because we played them last year, there is a lot of background. I haven't seen tape on them this year, but I trust Liberty is good because they beat us last year.

Having a bye can be a curse or a blessing. The blessing, obviously, is you don't have to play four straight games. The curse is the team you're playing has a game under its belt. If you're not ready, they can use that to their advantage. My players came out ready to play.

I think it's fair to call any of the other 10 teams dark horses. These teams that (No. 4) St. John's and DePaul are facing Sunday are capable of beating us, so that makes them a dark horse.

I thought we were just a little hurried in the first half. You can't throw the ball to them. You can't just give them the ball.

I thought we got some pretty good looks the last seven minutes. They're just a big-time team playing a big-time game in a big-time atmosphere.

I thought we got some pretty good looks in the last seven minutes but once they got it spread there in the last two minutes I started running some thing to get quick shots. It's a tough team to get quick shots against. That's a big time team playing a big time game in a big time atmosphere.

Resurrecting the kids from the Carolina defeat and bringing them back to the point to be able to beat LSU, that's a huge dynamic. That's a huge achievement.