That was an off game for them, they've played better. I've seen them on tape play everybody tough. They've been in three or four games where I thought they actually could have won them against very good teams.

We told our guys early on that we're going to play or we ain't going to play. You can't let things like that distract you.

Everything was fine until he showed up. He's good, and they're all good. They're a hard team to play, but we really need to play them well.

The main thing I told the players was we wanted to play good basketball, and we did. Then they threw the wild card at us.

I realize Big East teams will be bigger at the guard position, but you can play those two at the same time because Muhammad is like a 2-guard anyway. If you have him and Downey in there, it takes some pressure off Downey. That's not a bad option off the bench - it certainly destroyed us.

It would be huge, no doubt about it. Everybody wants to play this tour. That's what we're all out here to do.