Marcus Williams
Marcus Williams
gave people playing
We're used to playing away games. Out of the 20,000 people that showed up, at least 17,000 were probably Villanova fans. It gave me a little motivation.
feeling guys happy locker proud upset
We've had the upset locker rooms, the disappointed locker rooms. I told the guys we don't want any more of those locker rooms. We want to come in after the game, happy and being proud of each other, and have that feeling the whole time.
bear four game sunday tough tuesday worst
We can't lose. We have a tough game Tuesday and a tough one on Sunday (against Villanova). When we get those two out of the way, we have another two left. That's it right there. We just have to bear down for four more games. Then the worst we can do is tie.
felt won
We didn't know if we were in or not, but we felt that if we won this one we'd solidify (a spot).
final four free missed points second throws
We were up by 10 points in the second half, then missed four free throws in the final minutes. I think that has something to do with focus.
lie minutes syracuse team thinking within
We can't get bigheaded. We can't just think every team is going to lie down after we get a big victory. We were thinking Syracuse was going to lie down after those first 30 minutes and they actually crawled back to get within two possessions. You can't do that.
bad flashes good ourselves
We feel good about ourselves and we're confident, but I don't think we know how good we can be. We showed some flashes (Saturday) and we showed some flashes how bad we can be. So once we know how good we can be, we should be good.
athletes coach felt nasty
We felt we had better athletes on the perimeter than they did. Coach told me and Hassan to get in there and get nasty on the glass.
played
We played in the Big East. (The crowd) wasn't a factor.
almost last stepping time year
We are almost where we need to be. It was last year at this time (the UA) started stepping on people's throats. That's what we have to do next.
attacked bad good happened ready statement
We attacked the ball, and things happened good for us and bad for them. We made a statement that we're ready to go.
ball easy incredible ivan lay percentage shooting simplified
We are shooting an incredible percentage inside. When we got the ball in there we got easy dunks. Ivan got lay up after lay-up. We simplified the game.
arizona ball basketball played points shared
We just really shared the ball and played Arizona basketball out there. We got out and put points on the board.
basically job knew mental moment sat
We just sat here and thought. Basically a mental thing where we knew we didn't do the job and we didn't do our job defensively or offensively so we just kind of had a moment of silence.