Joey Jarzynka

COURTESY OF MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, BIG EAST CONFERENCE, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY COACH WOJCIECHOWSKI: I’d like to congratulate Georgetown. Patrick really had his team ready to play. They’re a team that’s improved a great deal. Obviously Wahab is a lot to deal with. But I think their other guys have really improved. And they outplayed us in every

COURTESY OF BUTLER UNIVERSITY, XAVIER UNIVERSITY, BIG EAST CONFERENCE COACH JORDAN: Extremely proud of our group. Obviously been through a ton this year. And to get an opportunity, when you get to tournament time, just to reset and talk about lessons that we’ve learned and then come out and fight for each other. So we

COURTESY OF XAVIER UNIVERSITY, BUTLER UNIVERSITY, BIG EAST CONFERENCE COACH STEELE: First, congratulations to Butler. I thought they played really, really hard, played a really good second half and into overtime. It was a tale of two halves. I thought offensively our ball was moving. I thought we were the aggressor during the first half,

COURTESY OF DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, BIG EAST CONFERENCE, PROVIDENCE COLLEGE Q. So, big one for you guys. Third time is a charm; they beat you twice in the regular season. What was working you this time around? And how much of a boost was it to get Javon Freeman-Liberty back today? CHARLIE MOORE: It was a

COURTESY OF PROVIDENCE COLLEGE, DEPAUL UNIVERSITY, BIG EAST CONFERENCE COACH COOLEY: So obviously disappointed in the loss. Give DePaul a lot of credit, both coming out of the first half and the second half. Their energy, their guard play was terrific. I’ll give them a lot of credit. Their physicality beat us up on the

COURTESY OF THE BIG EAST CONFERENCE, MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY, AND GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Q. Just wanted to ask about the first half, the offensive rebounds, just how important was that for kind of setting the tenor of the game, being able to crash the glass and get the opportunities like that? COACH EWING: … at the beginning