I think this is huge. I think for this team to be able to exhale, we need to do what we set out to do - protect our home floor.

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.

The intensity was really high. I think Sean (XU coach Miller) has a tremendous team, without question an NCAA Tournament team. We had our chances in regulation and in overtime and just did not make enough plays.

I don't know how a team with what we had on the line could approach the game as passively as we did.

That was very uncharacteristic of our team. Our guys didn't handle the entire situation very well and one thing led to another. We compounded our mistakes and allowed one to turn into another. You can not be tentative against pressure. Louisville sensed our tentativeness and fear and jumped on us and took us right out of the action. We got what we deserved.

We're playing a team in South Florida that has yet to scratch in the Big East. But they had a chance to win here [at Georgetown] a few weeks ago and they had Villanova on the ropes. It's going to be a battle.