Jim and I talked before the game (Monday) about this. It just doesn't make sense. Too many good teams. It's too difficult to stack the deck against people.

We've got some really good teams. It's going to take a major upset for somebody to beat Connecticut. And three or four of our other teams are good enough to make a Final Four, maybe five.

I think this year more than ever has proven there are teams that might not get in or just barely get in that can win games. In the past, years ago, I think there were always teams that maybe wanted to get in, but you really knew they couldn't win any games in the tournament if they got in.

We keep playing all these teams, we're going to find that assistant coach who thinks he's overrated. Or that guy is already home.

The Big East, I think, we belong here. Even though we've added some teams from outside, we're still fundamentally the Big East. And I think we're better off than we would be in a southern conference.

He does such a good job at punt holdup, where you put him out on the gunner, (that) we talked about playing him at corner some. I'm not kidding you, we did. Now I don't think that will happen, but there was a buzz in the room.