60 Quotes by Tom Crean

You can't be too high when you win, you can't be too low when you lose. You've got to move on to the next thing.

To start us out with one of the most storied college basketball programs of the last 15 years, I guess that?s good. My players would see right through me if I told them it was just another game.

This was an unbelievable conference win. This is a special night in the program's history. We beat a premier program in our first game in the Big East.

This was a big deal to him. I think his focus today was Colin Falls, and he did a great job in defending him.

You have to incorporate these things into practice. It takes a lot of courage to make free throws, and that?s often what separates really good teams from average teams. You have to make it a point of emphasis.

We got our second wind under us when we started to make those shots.

I've never been around a group of guys who sold out for each other in the second half. It was one of the most amazing things I have seen a team do.

As far as the end of the game, we got every look that we wanted. Two weeks ago (Novak) hit a shot with a second to go to win the game. Today he took a shot from a different place, and it just didn't go down.

They're unbelievably battle-tested. You're not only going to have to play to the final minute against Notre Dame, you're going to have to play to the final second. Notre Dame's got the second most efficient offense in college basketball, right behind Duke, averaging 119 points on every 100 possessions.