This is the greatest honor I could ever receive,

This is just a tremendous honor for me because it indicates respect from your peers, but it especially reflects well on the team and all the work they put in this year. A coach is only as good as his players, and I had a great group.

It's a tremendous honor, but I played with some great players and coached some great players. We always had sports. We were always friends on and off the field or court. Phil Jones (another inductee) has always been one of my best friends, and he still is.

I think a lot of credit has to go to Louisville when you have a leader out. I'm not sure how well our offense would have been if we didn't have Marcus Williams. Marcus is not the scorer, but he is the runner of the team. He gets the ball to the right people in the right time at the right spots. They didn't have that tonight. They worked like crazy.

Facing Syracuse up here is obviously a task. They looked very good against Cincinnati. They wore Cincinnati down.

We were a little sloppy, but they had a lot to do with that. Maybe two months ago we might not have been tough enough to hang on and increase that lead. We seem to be getting tougher.