He's got a good arm and a good curve ball. We've got a great challenge against him.

By some people's standards, they might see that as struggling, but I see it as just him settling down. A lesser person might give up after struggling early, but that's not Jeff. He just keeps battling.

I'm hoping that it's going to be a great crowd just like we had this weekend. Obviously, playing on national TV is a great opportunity, and I think everybody's excited.

I kept telling people not to panic early in the season, because the more we play, the better we play. We always play our best baseball in April and May.

Stewart did a fantastic job on what was an offensive day. Thornton has been so dependable for us. He's allowed one poor start.

It sure is a lot more fun to win than lose. I'm sure the players are aware that we've won several games in a row and I'm all for thinking about it, but you can't rest on your laurels. Just because you won the last game doesn't mean you'll win the next one.

This is obviously a huge series for us. You need to take care of business at home in our conference because the road games are just such tough games to win.

I've coached too many games against Rutgers to know they were not going to quit on us.

First of all, anytime you go on the road, it is tough in-conference. Second of all, Georgetown got our attention last year by beating us here. I think they're going to be tough games, and hopefully we'll play well in all our phases and get off to a good start.

This shows we could be a good offensive team; I hope this carries over for the rest of the week. Scoring early is important for this team because we are not a home-run hitting team and we don't have an enormous amount of power in the lineup.