Kevin Pittsnogle Quotes (29 Quotes)

We're moving on, and that's definitely a good thing. We lost the game, and now we play Syracuse Monday night. It's great to be able to have a chance to get off this game and have another one.

Our energy is always great around this time of year. We're always ready to play, especially since it could be the last game at any time for us seniors.

Our energy is great around this time of year. This could be our last game at any time since we're all seniors.

I personally have a lot of motivation to play well against them. I'm hoping to have the best game of the year, hopefully. We'll see what happens.

Once we were down we thought we could get back into it by making shots and making good plays. You get down by three or four, it's all right. But if you're down 10 or 12 it's really hard, no matter how good your shooters are, to get back into it.

I'm still glad I said it. There's nothing wrong with what I said. I think it was just more like confidence.

It ate at me. I thought about it. We were not leaving this locker room without a win.

We knew we could play with them, but we weren't sure about all the emotions coming in here on Senior Night. We had a lot of energy and we came out and shot well, played well and got the early lead.

With the team that's coming in here, and the team we have, it should be a March Madness atmosphere. They've got good shooters outside and some good bangers inside, so they're a tough team to match up against.

We've been down since Pitt. Our energy is always great at this time of the year, and especially this year. You have to be ready to play when it could be your last game.

We are ready to get rolling, ... People are tired of the preseason. I am still getting people coming up to me all the time, telling me that it was a great run. It happens everywhere. We're known now. And I think there are a lot of guys on the team that are confident. But none that are cocky. Everyone saw what we did last year, and it will be tough to repeat it.

We have a lot of people come up to us and thank us for just coming to school there and playing basketball after the year they had before we got there. When we started, it was 4,000 (fans per game), and now, our arena is up to 14,000. It's just tremendous to have that kind of fan support.

We thought we had a pretty good shot at going into overtime. We hopped on our defense. But they found a guy, and he just tossed it up and it went in. It was kind of an up-and-down situation.

Mike does everything on the floor that you would want out of a basketball player.

We were wide open when we passed the ball into the middle of the 2-3. So, that's what we tried to do in the second half.

It was a tough game on our court, so I imagine it will be a tough game there. You don't want to end the regular season on a losing note, so we'll do everything we can to prevent that.

This team is bigger. With that tall lineup, they have the better inside game against almost every team they play against. I don't think there's another team in America with guys 6-9, 6-10 and 6-11 starting in their front court.

That's how college basketball is, ... It's how you perform at the end of the year and how you perform in big-time situations. I like to pride myself on making the big shots when I have to.

There have been games where we have given away leads, UCLA for example. We know we will make plays at the end of games. We are a senior-laden team and we know how to win games.

I think as of late we haven't relied on the three as much as we normally do. We kind of relied more on penetration and kicking it out and getting 15-foot jump shots.

That's just confidence. That's confidence in myself and confidence in my team. I'm not going to do that (be held scoreless) very often. Hopefully, it will just be once every four years.

I first heard it when we came back into the locker room after we beat Boston College

I have to go ahead and do it. I have faith in my teammates that they are going to help us win this game. We're going to win it.

It was horrible, something I don't like doing. But I have to. My mom ( Tammy ) is here, and she keeps the baby on game nights.

When you go 0-fer in a game against somebody, you've got something to prove the next time you play that team.

This is the most buzz I have ever seen around the basketball team. The football team has always had it, but right now for basketball to be seen how it is, it's tremendous.

It was an up and down swing of emotions. But that happens in basketball.

In past year's we've lost to them on last-minute shots. We were just hoping it would not go in.

More than the loss, I think it (hurts) more that we'll never play together as a team. We have so much fun together and love each other.