Agnus Berenato Quotes (38 Quotes)

Tonight was kind of a cool night. None of us had ever been here before. We'd never seen this venue as a basketball court. ... Saying that, I'm really proud of the team. I thought they played as an unbelievable unit.

This is hard for me. We thought tonight we were going to make history.

All those offensive rebounds are nice, but they don't mean much if you can't convert them into points.

One loss does not diminish what this team has done. My view on making the NCAA Tournament has not changed. We are still above .500 in the conference, and we have 19 wins. I have all the confidence in the selection committee that they know what this team is capable of.

We didn't have a flow. I thought we really struggled offensively.

I'm a big believer that you reap what you sow. I tell the team that all the time. I don't think luck just happens. I think people create their own good fortune.

We were the sixth seed and lost to the third seed. DePaul is one of the best 15 teams in the nation, and we aren't, but we are one of the best 64. I believe that will all my heart. If we don't get in, that will set me back years.

We were a little sluggish at first, but there are no excuses. The home crowd was an awesome environment. I kept telling my team to focus on the task at hand.

Give them credit. There's a reason they're 22-8. We knew they were going to battle until the end.

The fact that we got 70 shots is amazing. Our shots, a great majority of them, were in and out, literally. Thats being a little bit tight maybe, and that happens when you play against a great team. Im really proud of my team because I think we battled.

I thought that first half of basketball, Pitt played really, really well.

This is the second-best defensive team in the nation. You can't prepare for that. We can't practice that kind of heat.

It was a war out there. You could tell that people were definitely playing for something.

They were better conditioned than us and are superior athletes. This game showed my players how hard you have to work to compete at this level. We are closing the gap, and I feel good about this team.

You know ... I feel like we didn't get the title, but that doesn't mean by any means that we're a failure or we have negative feelings. I think that we probably exceeded everybody's expectations. We got 22 wins. We tied for the most wins ever in the history of the program ...

This was probably our worst game this season. But DePaul is a very good team and they're the No. 3 seed for a reason.

We didn't lose this game from lack of effort. I give credit to Connecticut because they are a top-notch program. But I am proud of our team and our effort.

This is a year of firsts for this Pittsburgh team. Our motto has been all year, 'Why not Pitt' We came here to win. I talked to my team before the game and used reverse psychology by telling them Pitt had been to the Big East tournament before and Cincinnati, which is new to the conference this year, hadn't been here before. So they thought 'We' had been here before and they were right. 'We' as in 'Pitt' were before.

Why not Pitt We're in one of the top conferences in the country. The philosophy (for tournament selection) is if you go .500 in your conference, you're in. That's the way it is in the ACC, SEC, all the top conferences.

If you look at the shooting, the fact that we got 70 shots was amazing. I think that's a sign that they believed they could make the shot and a good majority of them went in and out.

We really struggled offensively. We didn't have a flow. Notre Dame did a good job.

This was huge win for us. I feel like any time a team can get to .500 in a conference as good as the Big East, then they should receive an NCAA Tournament bid. The worst we can finish is .500. In the preseason, people thought we wouldn't even make the conference tournament.

We are confident. I like our team's chances at an NCAA Tournament bid. We had a tough schedule at the end of the season, having to play at West Virginia, against Rutgers and at Notre Dame. We have a good RPI (64th) and are in one of the top conferences in the country.

This was a great college atmosphere tonight for women's basketball.

The fact that we got 70 shots is amazing. That's being a little bit tight. That's what happens when you play a great team. Connecticut weathered the storm. They're a great team.

These are my leaders right here. And I wouldn't trade them, they're wonderful. But, at the same time, you have to be able to be in a situation, and then you have to learn.

There were probably a lot of people who thought we might not have made it this far, but we did. I feel like, even though we aren't in the championship game, that we exceeded expectations.

We need more support like the men get, but you have to show them that you deserve it. But we have faithful people and they're bringing people with them.

That was a huge victory for us, but we couldn't sustain it.

This was a cool kind of night. It brought back some memories for many of our fans who used to watch games in this building. I really feel like my team bought into playing in Fitzgerald Field House. They played like an unbelievable unit.

We always tell our ladies, you work hard, you bust your butt, you go through walls and it will happen for you. And it didn't happen for us.

When they did that, their supporting cast was shell-shocked. I told my players to go out and think that the score was 0-0 when it was really 26-9. They closed the gap to 29-20 right before the half. That was a big victory for this young team. We just weren't able to sustain it.

I want the University of Pittsburgh to experience those things that Connecticut has experienced with conference championships and NCAA titles. We will be a winning program.

They made a commitment to the university to change the program. To really be difference-makers ... I think what it says is, if you do things the right way, you reap what you sow.

We felt tonight like we would make history. We thought we deserved it and worked for it.

I have such a belief that we can be prominent on the national scene. But we're in a league with programs that have made it. So you have to make a leap. So who are you going to leap over.

At this point in the season, there are no excuses. I told the team at halftime to focus on the task at hand. I had to tell them not to focus on the student section or the rest of the crowd.

We really thought we would be making history (last night). We wanted to be here saying we got Pittsburgh into the NCAA Tournament for the first time. This has been a magical season, and we aren't going to let not being selected to the NCAA Tournament take away from what we have accomplished this season, even though we really believed we would be invited.