I was in awe. Coach pretty much ripped us at halftime, tearing into us, and we took it to heart. This is the start of Big East season, and you don't want to start 0-1.

That was a good crowd. We're used to crowds like that in the Big East. But it was a good crowd, and they definitely made their feelings known.

We feel like we kind of gave one away there. So, yeah, we'll be kind of hyped to see them.

I really want to beat Syracuse. We've never beaten them before, and that would top everything off completely and make us feel good about our last home game.

The last 9 minutes of the game seemed like 20 days. Holding onto a lead like that and then knowing it's over ? it means a lot. ... We haven't gotten the big wins throughout our whole careers here, but today things fell our way.

We were pretty happy about it. We knew things were going to change and head in the right direction.