rutgers basketball Quotes

Basketball Prospectus figures that Rutgers has an 8-in-a-million chance of winning the Big East tournament. I'm not sure what else to say here.

Cincinnati's Yancy Gates, left, is hit in the face by Rutgers' Hamady Ndiaye in the first half of their first round NCAA college basketball game in the Big East Conference tournament Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo\/Henny Ray Abrams)

It would be tremendous ... We wanted to get into the tournament, and now we're in it. And definitely our sights are on winning that first game. That's as far as we're going to look right now. Rutgers is a great basketball team. They have the third-be...

I just think it in my mind in the first place, before the first shot ... It's crunch time, you either live or go home and about what I can give to the team to help us get farther. It's not about hitting that first shot, it's about playing basketball ...

Before we knew we were going to play Rutgers, Rutgers is still a team you don't want to play in March ... They play defense and in March, those are the teams that win basketball games. €¦ They do a really good job of holding you under your [scoring] ...

We shared the basketball ... Sometimes this particular group gets into the mind-set that they can beat Rutgers or whoever we're playing [individually], and it becomes very difficult. ... We're getting the thing moving. We're still going to put 75, 80...

We got hustle points, loose balls. I couldn't be happier about that. And we shared the basketball. I know it's a funny old adage, but sometimes this particular group gets into a mindset that they can beat Rutgers or whomever they're playing, and then...

It's not easy to get to the NCAA; in this conference it's not easy, we have a lot of lions in this league eating our young ... Our conference sometimes puts people on the bubble and takes teams and puts them in the tournament. Putting Rutgers away, w...

Sarah has done a great job for us this year ... She has accepted her role and hit some big shots going down the stretch in the 55-51 win over Rutgers. She got to the rim a couple of times and was fouled and made four free throws at the end. She is as...

You're going to see what a wounded animal looks like. When an animal is backed in a corner they attack, they come out, and it's survival. That's more or less what Rutgers has done over the past two weeks, and Calhoun has noticed. Freddie Hill lost hi...