Rutgers Quotes

We're clearly delighted to be in the NCAA tournament. We've played Rutgers before and we know their history and tradition, but we have our own history and tradition. - Chris Wielgus

We're certainly going to miss (the 19) seniors. They are the young men that put Rutgers football back on the map and laid the foundation. - Greg Schiano

We weren't looking past this game, but we were also looking forward to playing Rutgers. It's not like we're looking past West Virginia, either. Clearly, they are good enough. ... But I feel we're a lot more experienced and that will carry over. - Brittany Hunter

We were very frustrated. As I was sitting watching the Temple-Rutgers game on TV, I was saying, 'Please, Rutgers win.'... I know Vivian and I knew she was going to let them hear about it. - Tom Collen

We were rattled. A team like Rutgers, they play in spurts, and they didn't have a large spurt. We certainly knew we had it in us to get back in the game if we stayed focused. - Dawn Staley

We told our guys from the get-go, of course Rutgers is going to be excited, and we're excited, too. Rutgers has a lot to prove. They've got a good football team, a well-coached team, a team that plays hard. I think we have all those things, too. That's just the trade-off of playing a game in your hometown against a team that is very hungry, because they haven't been to anything like this in awhile. That doesn't diminish the fact our guys know how to compete, too. - Dirk Koetter

We thought we had them, and it just slipped. I don't know what happened. We wanted to play in the RAC [Rutgers Athletic Center] so bad. It was everyone's dream and we just blew it. - Sam Hayes

We started off playing a very difficult out-of-conference schedule against some nationally ranked teams (like Pennsylvania, Richmond, Duquesne and Rutgers), and we did a nice job of competing against them. Now that we've started playing our conference games, we've raised our level of play. - Kelly McCardell

We really needed to win this game. But we came out a little flat. We didn't attack like we did at Rutgers. It was here for us to take and we didn't grab it. I'm not going to sleep tonight. - Phil Missere