It was nice to do it in our gym in front of our home crowd in his senior year. He had a great tournament.

When you lose, you have to flick the switch -- either you're gonna get better or worse. And he wasn't gonna get worse.

I'm ecstatic he's here again. A lot of people expect a lot from him -- but he also expects a lot out of himself.

This is obviously the first step. You can't get a home game without making the playoffs, and we took care of that.

[NOTES: Rutgers opens the preseason on Nov. 12 at Bucknell and the regular season Nov. 20 at home against Austin Peay... .Waters said that 6-10 freshman forward/center Zack Gibson, one of seven frontcourt players, could be red-shirted.] That's a feasibility, ... The positive thing is that the NCAA has a new rule in effect, and that new rule is you can play them in the two exhibition games and make a decision after that.

When you're a minister you're all over the place. When you're mayor you can get home for dinner. If the voters select her, I think it would be a much different family lifestyle.