Geno Auriemma

When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to read more

When you lose this game, there's nothing worse. There's nothing worse because this is the game that gets you to the place where all good things can happen. This is the hardest hurdle to get over, because you need 12 more months then to get back here and you didn't put yourself in a position to win the national championship.

We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here read more

We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here when we had to make them, I think that's a great sign for our guys.

I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew read more

I knew we would find a different Notre Dame team than the one we played at their place. I knew we would have to play a lot better than we did there. Our post players came up really big. It went exactly the way I thought it would except for the last five or six minutes, considering the kind of week we had.

You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.

You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.

We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it's not out of the realm read more

We want everybody to be one of the top players in the league, and it's not out of the realm of possibly to do that. We've got all the ingredients. It's just a matter of doing it.