Matt Fine Quotations

Obviously, we didn't do very well with the big boy last year. We're certainly going to have more emphasis - not that we didn't last year - but we're going to make sure our kids are surrounding him and try to make somebody else beat us.

From a preparation standpoint, the fact that we've been there is going to help us this year.

Thank God for that game. We just settled for perimeter shots in that game. That game opened our eyes to how diverse we need to be, and how diverse we can be. Since then, we've started scoring in different ways.

We've been fortunate because we have an outstanding group that are not only pretty good players, but quality young men as well. We're going to have our hands full, though, trying to get anything going because their switching man-to-man defense has caused problems for a lot of teams.

We're happy to have the opportunity to get back down here with such a young team. We're going to have to play our best game of the year to beat them but . . . who knows?

We're not going to finish at point-blank range with him standing there, so we're not even going to try that crap this year.

We're going to have to shoot the ball well. Everybody says that; nobody seems to be able to do it against that tough defense. We're going to have to knock some threes down and really make them score in the half-court. They do a great job scoring in transition.

What scares us about Penn is how good they are fundamentally on offense. They space themselves very well and do a great job of getting the ball inside to their post players.

They were on a mission tonight. They were on a mission all year. They do a great job of taking everybody's best shot. I don't think we gave them our best shot, but it didn't matter tonight the way they were shooting the ball.