Jay Wright Kept Quotations

Obviously this was an incredible Big East battle. We just said to ourselves, this is BIG EAST game No. 1 - it tells you what this league will be like...Timely shots by Allan Ray, Jason Frazier and Dante Cunningham kept us in the game. Every time Louisville made runs at us, those guys made big plays. Game number one in the Big East, that's what it's going to be like.

I was really proud that we were able to complete 40 minutes. We struggled, but we finished it off and we just kept playing. That's a sign of a really good team.

I was very pleased with our defensive effort, no matter what the score was we kept a very intense effort each possession and I was proud of our guys for that.

When our press was effective at times, it kept them from getting into their (half-court) sets. When they got into their sets, he hurt us.

We kept Mike and Allan on (McNamara). We wanted to keep a fresh body on him. These two are very good defensive players. They really get excited about guarding people.

In the first half, that kept us in it, because we weren't shooting the ball very well.