Jamie Dixon Talk Quotations

Recruits definitely talk about it. You bring them to a game, and they see the environment. It's good. It helps us a lot.

We want to help all our guys in any way we can, if they want to further their careers, but our focus is on our guys and getting ready for (first-round opponent) Louisville. People are smart enough to know when the right time is to talk about other schools. Every situation is different, so to give a blanket statement wouldn't be the right thing to do.

That's news to me. I'll know more when I talk to him (today).

I'll be very proud of that. That one means a lot. That's one of the things we sell in our recruiting. We talk about the university, about the City of Pittsburgh, about graduating and about getting better. We have concrete proof that kids get better here.

I don't know if it means too much more to us. I know it looks good in the papers and to talk about, but it's two good teams. We have a lot of respect for their program.

He's just doing such a good job of keeping the ball up high. You talk about it a lot, but to consistently do it is something else.

It's something that's been said about us. I sometimes used to get away from it but now we embrace it. Teams often talk about us playing like the Steelers, or as a football team at different times. Now we look at it as a good thing and we're proud of it.

It's as tough as it has been, no question. There's no question the league has gotten tougher the last couple of years. When we first got into the conference seven years ago there was talk that the conference was down a little bit. The conference is on the rise the last couple of years.

It was such a good, close game with two good teams going at it, so we always talk about that game. I think that it brings back some memories.

They're not leading the conference in 3-point percentage. They win games when they don't shoot a high percentage. They're going to make some 3s. They'll make some tough 3s. We talk about making them all tough shots. We can't give them any easy or open ones. When you give them an easy shot it just going to feed their confidence.