Mike MacDonald Quotes (9 Quotes)

It's a simple game. If you make shots, you do a lot better. We just didn't make shots, and we had great looks. We played well enough defensively to win. . . . We have to come up with a better answer for Collins.

The two of us have always had a policy we'd never play. But the (HSBC) Arena got involved and wanted to see John's team come in. We needed to play there next season (as a rehearsal game for the 2007 NCAA Tournament regional). We were both desperate for games and we decided to do it.

Canisius is a very special place . . . It's a bottom line business unfortunately. If the only thing we can be accused of is not winning enough games, I leave here with my head held high because we've had guys who've acted the right way.

It was difficult but I told them I was down in that locker room after Richard Jones passed away in 2004 and that was a tragedy. Wednesday night was not a tragedy. We are not dealing in life and death.

I didn't think about it. It's not like I was looking down there (at the West Virginia bench) every time. One time out of a timeout we ran a play and they ran the exact same play the next possession. That was kind of ironic.

It's a funny career the way it's gone. There's a classic example of turning a negative into a positive.

They made a couple more plays than we did. I thought we played with great intensity and energy all the way.

It was from somebody totally different and off the wall. It wasn't somebody who played here and graduated in the '40s or '50s who guys can't relate to. It's a guy they can relate to, only a few years older than them.

It's the salvation a tournament gives you that you're looking to find. You have a chance for redemption. We have so many Catholic schools in the league, I guess we can say it's absolution. We can have all our sins absolved with a good weekend.