39 Quotes by Tom Collen

They've been hearing about and reading about being in the Big East, and now here we are. We're in the Big East tournament and I think they're anxious to see what the big time is about.

They have every reason to maybe not have as much confidence in themselves. But miraculously, when I let them play through a missed shot here and there, they stay confident. That's why they're out there on the floor.

They have a great atmosphere there. The fans are very exuberant; they?re right on top of you. It?s very loud there. They have a great home-court advantage.

They're a veteran team that's well-coached. They like to pound the ball inside, but they're also a good shooting team from the perimeter, so they protect their inside game.

For her to come back and have a big game on the national stage like she did against (Notre Dame) has to give her more confidence. And we could use 20 points out of her against the big dogs.

For 37 minutes, we deserved to win. In the last two and a half minutes we let it slip away.

It was pretty ugly. But sometimes these kinds of games, rivalry games in front of big crowds, turn into brawls. And so if you can come out on top of the brawl, you've done some pretty good things.

They just set an incredible pace, and want to blow you out in the first five minutes. If you?re not ready to run back in transition, you?re not ready for them to shoot the ball early, and they?re hot, you can find yourself in a hole really, really fast. I think you have to go in there knowing that they have a great home-court advantage, and I think you have to go in there knowing that the game is going to be intense.

I hope we recovered out of our three-game skid. I thought we bounced back and played pretty well against Marquette. It was an important game for us.