March 10, 2022

COACH HURLEY: Obviously thrilled with the quarterfinal, Thursday was pretty cool. But semifinal Friday is even better. So excited about that. Credit Seton Hall. What Kevin has done with those guys this year through, just through losing guys and the type of season he’s had in the Big East this year, and just want to

COACH ANDERSON: Excuse our guys. It’s a really emotional locker room there. And you can understand why. I thought our guys left their heart, guts and everything on the floor. And just came up a little short. Congrats to Villanova. They hung in there, hung in there. And I guess their experience kicked in gear

COACH WRIGHT: A lot of credit to St. John’s. I mean, it’s no surprise to us. We weren’t disappointed in our play at all. If you watched them last night, watched them the last couple of games, they’re playing great basketball. It’s a credit to Mike to get his team playing the way they are.

COACH SMART: Congratulations to Creighton. I thought they played with really good aggressiveness and togetherness. Our guys did a really good fighting to come back, cut the lead down to two. I think we had an offensive possession where we could have tied it. But we didn’t do a good enough job with the attention

COACH MCDERMOTT: I thought my guys were terrific. Marquette’s a heck of a basketball team. And we’ve played them in two previous games that frankly we were probably lucky to win both of them. But kind of found a way at the end. And our roster is different than it was in those two games,

COACH JORDAN: Yeah, listen. Obviously a tough one — it’s always tough. End of the, end of the season, or end of the tournament, it’s always tough when anything comes to an end with this team, team 124. So it’s hard to look at all those guys in the locker room and know we don’t

COACH COOLEY: First and foremost, I thought we played a great team today. I mean, these guys fought right to the end. They had us on our toes the whole time. Wasn’t pretty out there. We definitely showed some rust not playing over the last nine days which prior to I was concerned with. And