Mike Pressler Quotations

I believe this is in the best interests of the program, the department of athletics and the university.

If it's 1 vs. 2 or 21 vs. 22, with the Maryland-Duke game for the last 16 years, all that other stuff is meaningless. It's a very, very competitive game.

I thought we came out with good levels of intensity and aggressiveness. For a first game, we played pretty well, but we have a lot of areas to improve. We'll take this one and move on to next week against a very good Villanova team.

We have a different sense of confidence going into this year. We know we're going to get everybody's best, very similar to our basketball team. We go from the hunter to the hunted. That's something we have to understand and be able to take it a notch higher.

This was a year we didn't need a whole lot of depth from the class. Our goal was to land quality players at each position, and I believe we were able to accomplish that. We are counting on these seven outstanding student-athletes to help us continue the tradition of success we experienced on the field, in the classroom and in the community.

It was so difficult to get there and get so close and wonder if we'll ever have the opportunity to get back there again. It took a while to get over it.

It just kind of takes the bite of Saturday out a little bit. We don't have all week to have that hangover on us. We had a nice win today.