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If they've shown anything through 16 games, they are fighters and they have a toughness, which is the personification of Cincinnati basketball.

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For us to be completely off the board is shocking. Some of the teams that were included, I'm sure are quality basketball teams, but the numbers do not compute.

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We limited his touches, we kept him to 15. He's a remarkable scorer. He changes the way you coach a game because he's so good.

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I met with Mike this morning and we talked about a number of issues and he was great understanding my position and granting me permission to speak with other people.

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I just want him to relax and enjoy playing the game. He seems to ride those peaks and valleys, which is typical for a freshman. I want to make sure our guys are enjoying this and look around, they're on national television and playing in front of 20,000 people at Syracuse. This is what they've wanted their whole life. Go out and enjoy it. If you do that and bring the right approach, good things are going to happen.

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Sometimes you just get caught up in such a funk you don't have energy and you put so much pressure on the rest of your game cause you don't make shots.

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I'm the interim coach. That means today and I guess the rest is up for debate.

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You can 'X' and 'O' until you're blue in the face, but at the end of the day somebody's got to make a shot.

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I'm just relieved that our guys rose up to the challenge so that we could live to fight another day.

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It's hard for this team to play catch-up against a quality team in this environment. I thought our shot selection was a little bit poor. We're dependent on making perimeter jumpers and those things come and go.

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He's been playing exceptionally well. In the LSU game, he was the guy they went to down the stretch, so we know he's good. But we tried to pick our poison a little bit. This is a team with a Hall of Fame coach and a lot of good players.

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When we thought we were starting to get back into the game, we did foolish things with the ball, which they capitalized on. Good teams do.

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We trapped a little bit more, maybe not as much in the full court as we have in the past, but in the half court to create opportunities. It was the turning point of the game. They were up six or seven and we created opportunities, we finished in the open floor.

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Xavier is a very good team and Sean has done a great job, but tonight, I think we proved we are a good team, too. Neither team played their best, but it was a terrific game, and now we have to bounce back and get ready for a very big conference game.

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We had our opportunities. We just didn't take advantage of them. We got some good looks and couldn't knock the shots down and we turned the ball over too much.

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I am disappointed. I felt like we had an opportunity. In life when you get an opportunity, you need to take advantage of it. I am disappointed for our kids, not in our kids.

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If he would have jumped up and hit a shot like (Lionel) Chalmers did two years ago, on almost the identical spot, I can live with that. Let the kids decide the game.

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The intensity was really high, for it to be determined by a hand check are you kidding me Let the kids decide the game.

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He said he fell and hurt his hand (in practice) Friday. But I don't remember it.

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I'm hopeful these guys realize all the work and all the obstacles they've overcome. Now we're going down the stretch. Now it's time to do whatever is possible to try to salvage this year. We cannot allow ourselves to fall prey to a pity party ...

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I appreciate that. I went into this with my eyes open. I signed a one-year contract. That's what I expect. For me, it's about trying to get this team to the NCAA tournament. I thought we let a golden opportunity slip through our fingers tonight.

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(His loss) makes us change things schematically.

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We had our opportunities and we didn't take advantage of them. When you give a team like Syracuse and you let Gerry McNamara have a window of opportunity, unfortunately sometimes you have to live with the feeling we currently have.

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Maybe a less experienced team it would be a factor, but they have these seniors and I think they'll approach it like any other game, because that's the way they play.

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They're very dependent on their core. I think they've got a little more depth than us because they can bring some bigger guys off the bench. But they don't have football, so that's one advantage we have, I guess, over them.

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