I think we’ve put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we’ll get out of this what we want.

I know what we can control, we can control our effort and we can control our approach. We do what we’re supposed to do to get some second-chance points off the offensive glass, maybe our pressure can get us some easy opportunities in the open floor and we’ve got to capitalize.

It’s just the way we’ve chosen to deal with it. What’s there to talk about The reality is that we’re undermanned in a lot of areas. We’re in the best league in the country. We don’t have to read the paper to know that all the teams we play are quality teams.

I do think this league ... will legitimately have an opportunity for eight to nine or 10 bids.

I don't know how a team with what we have on the line can approach the game as we did and as a result I think Seton Hall took the game to us and were certainly the better team down the stretch.

If you would have told me in September that we're going to play West Virginia on our home floor for all of the marbles, I would have taken that. And that's kind of where we are.

I'm hopeful we learned some things from it. I don't know of another team in the country that runs that 1-3-1 (zone), and certainly no one runs it as well. You try to simulate it and until you face it, so hopefully both as a staff, and more importantly as players, we'll do a better job of attacking it.

I knew coming into this year that the difference between finishing third and finishing eighth was going to be a bad weekend. I think that's playing out.

It was just as bad the second time. We just seemed to be out of sync, a step slow. It wasn't just one possession, but continuously.

People think I'm trying to be funny, but right now as I walk across campus I'm going to search out tall guys. We picked up a couple of football players yesterday, an offensive guy and a defensive guy, so we have our bases covered. I'm hoping we can get enough bodies to get through practice.